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Wildlife Panoramas

When one thinks of panoramas the mind automatically leaps to scenes of great vistas and awesome landscapes. (well mine does…) While working on our new book about lions I started playing about with shooting panoramas stitched from 2 or 3 images … Continue reading

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Don’t Pack Your Camera Gear Away!

We were doing a shoot at St Lucia, Part of the Isimangaliso Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site in KwaZulu Natal. One of the things we were covering was the Santa Lucia launch tour and we’d done the whole thing … Continue reading

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Use Objects to Show Scale

Sometimes it can be very important to use well known objects in an image to show the scale of things. Take this huge pile of sugar at the Sugar terminals at Maydon Wharf. Durban. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa. Hold your finger over … Continue reading

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Using a long shutter speed to illustrate movement and speed.

One of the most sort after things in photography is getting sharp images but like so much in photography this can change. Adding blur through the use of a very low shutter speed (in this case 1/8 sec) is a … Continue reading

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Shallow Depth of Field

I am a member of the Pix Magazine photography forum (have a look here: http://pixmag.ning.com) and from time to time members ask advice. Here’s a recent one and I’ve posted it here because I think that it could be useful … Continue reading

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