Photo tips
Improve your wildlife photo skills with our extensive info on photo tips and techniques. In depth articles on shooting action, working with light, creating ultra sharp images, choosing photo hardware including image stabilizer lenses, making hides, mastering fill flash, choosing the right aperture and field craft. Click on the titles below to view a feature. Please browse, enjoy, and feel free to download if you wish!
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Essential reading
Getaway Guide to Wildlife Photography
Based on 20 years of travelling through southern Africa’s finest game reserves the author imparts much of his hard earned wisdom in a straightforward way that simplifies the technical complexities of wild life photography. With both digital and film media the art of making a picture come alive lies in its composition and lighting. Nigel shows the reader how to recognize ‘golden light’ as well as valuable advice on how to greatly improve the appearance of a photograph in other less than ideal lighting situations. Even the more complex aspects of photography such as selecting the appropriate aperture and shutter speed, making exposure compensations, and fill flash techniques are explained in clear simple terms. Apart from the invaluable photographic advice offered the author shares South Africa’s best-kept wildlife secrets: where to go to photograph wildlife, the best time of year to visit, and the game species you are most likely to find as subjects in each reserve. Reviews include '...the most useful book on wildlife photography I have ever read'.
Revised edition 2004 Sunbird Publishing. ISBN 0 624 04064 X. Soft cover 28cm x 21cm. 48 pages. Price R89.95 (approx $12 or GB Pounds 8.20)
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Getaway Guide to Where to Watch Game in the Kruger National Park
This hugely popular book is a must for any visitor intent on seeing - and photographing - as much game as possible during a stay in Kruger. Each camp and the roads around it are described in detail, together with a map of game hot spots and top game drive routes highlighted. Best waterholes for photography are also indicated, along with useful general hints and tips on photography, plus a mammal checklist. The information in this book is based on the 800 days Nigel Dennis has spent in the Kruger National Park over a past twelve year period. The book is beautifully illustrated with many of Nigel's photographs. Essential reading if you wish to optimize your visit to this renowned Park. Email feedback from readers who have followed the game drive routes in this book have reported “Our best trip ever to Kruger”, “Fantastic sightings of the big cats” and “Great photo opportunities”.
Revised Edition 2003 Sunbird Publishing. ISBN 0 624 03885. Softcover 28cm x 21cm, 48 pages. Price R69.95
Available from most South African bookstores.
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