Saturday, August 11, 2018

Tips On How To Fill Your African Wildlife Photo Gallery With Beautiful Pictures

By Carolyn Jones


For a photographer, it would be a joy to be able to capture at least one photo of an animal from the great African region. They know that getting one is difficult and only pros have the greater chance of having one. To start your very own African wildlife photo gallery, here are some tips that you might wanna know.

Go out early and leave late. This means, just before the sun comes out, you must already be outside and ready and you must also go back to your lodging late. There is a time of the day in which the called the golden hours, this is the time when many animals would come out and the skies turns to orange.

The lower you will be to the ground the better. According to those who are into this kind of photography, getting lower to the ground is what is needed to do. This way, you would be the same level as their perspective. Taking pictures in their perspective makes it look more dramatic and with story. This allows you to focus just with the animal leaving the background behind it.

Try putting the subject on the side sometimes. You might find yourself trying to capture images of a scenery you find great but it ended up boring on your camera. Do not give up right away and find other ways. Try to adjust your subject on the side and focus on very little detail in the center and this might work to get the image you wanted. It will even look more enhanced.

Four, look at its eye. If an opportunity arises, try to catch its eyes when it looks at you. Their eyes will bring your photo to life as their eyes depicts its mood and emotion. Your focus should be at it. Look at the animal and see what it is doing. When it is looking at a certain direction, do not cut it, capture the whole thing.

Set up your shutter speed to an accurate one. The key here is your shutter speed, the wrong speed not only will decrease the chance of capturing a good photo but surely all your catch are blurry. So, play with your camera first to find out which of the following speed is the right one.

Be always prepared. During the perfect moment, you must already be ready at that time. Your patience is tested here as you must wait for the perfect moment to arrive. All photographers that goes here experienced the same thing. Just be patience and eventually it will turn out great in the end.

The harder part is when the animal is moving when you try to take a picture of it. Now, you just need to change the settings of your cameras for this. Canon users should set the auto focus to Servo while Nikon users to AFC. Those who have other brands can check which of the two it is gonna be as it just has the same settings.

Of course, it will not go as what you hope for at first, that is a given. Just keep on practicing with those shot of yours and eventually you would get the hang of it. It will not be hard for you since you love what you are doing.




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