Page 92 - World of Animals - Issue #30

Wildlife photography

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Shoot in Consider the

strong light practicalities

Avoid lens flare and get better Keep your kit and images safe

colours with this lighting advice with this essential advice
Safaris are often in hot countries where When planning a safari, it’s often easy to
the sunlight is very strong, which doesn’t get excited about the kinds of images you
always help you to take the best photos. will try and capture and forget to consider
One way around this is to organise a tour the practical things. First of all, don’t forget
when the light is softer, around sunrise and to take spare batteries, as the last thing you
sunset; this will also lead to a lovely warm want is your camera running out of juice
glow to your images. If this isn’t possible, just as you spot an animal. Take plenty of
make sure you use a lens hood to reduce memory cards and don’t just use one, as if

glare on the lens. A UV filter will also filter this corrupts you will have lost everything.
out UV light and remove the blue cast A portable hard drive is useful so you can
you might see in strong sunlight – many make a back-up of these shots. You’ll also
modern cameras deal with this quite want to pack some cleaning kit such as a

well themselves, but a UV filter will also microfibre cloth and blower brush, to help
help to protect the end of your lens from clean any dirt off. It’s important to limit how
knocks. A polarising filter should also be often you change your lenses over in dusty

considered, as this will help to improve the environments, though, as this can cause dust
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