African Photographic Safari
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| Leopard taken on an African Photographic Safari |
Do you like photography, are you a beginner or an amateur but feels like you just don't get those shots that you want ?
If you answered yes to any of those then you are at the right place. In this blog post I will give you more info on what to look at and what is important to know about African Photographic Safaris. Africa has most probably the biggest concentration of wildlife and this makes it so much more fun, you can drive the same route for a few days in a row and experience different sightings of wildlife. This means that you can visit a specific area for a week or even more and you will not waste your time. These days there are a few new consessions and Lodges that specialize in African Photography Safaris, this means that we can now visit these areas and use there "Hides" or even their specialized boats or game drive vehicles. One of the most important aspects of an African Photographic Safari is having a guide who knows the wildlife and their reactions, this will help you a lot to capture those special photographs that you can enter into comps and hopefully win. If you plan an African Photographic safari without having this knowledge you will still get good shots but you will most probably miss out on a lot.
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| Boat used on an African photographic Safari |
This all depends on how serius you are about your photography but I would recommend a DSLR with a zoom lense to about 300mm, if you have the money then a 400-500mm will be great but otherwise a 300mm will do and you will also need a wider angle lense like a 17-35mm or a 24-70mm. Did you know if you do an African Photographic Safari with us we can take a few lenses with for you to test and use? Make sure you have a lot of memory cards, yes I know you get 64GB memory cards but I like to use smaller (8-16GB) cards so that I can change my memory card at every destination and if one of my cards are faulty then I don't lose all my work, make sense doesn't it? Batteries is something you will kick yourself if you run out of power so make sure you ALWAYS have 2 fully charged batteries with you where ever you go. Tripods and ballheads, I use a Gimbal head for wildlife photography as it gives you the flexability but the support you need and you can use any tripod as long as it is steady and not to heavy. You can also invest in a small window mount which screw onto any window and then you can attach your ballhead to it. Don't forget your cleaning kit as both your lenses and camera body will get dust on it and if that happens you need to clean it straight away.
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| African Photographic Safari hides |
an African Photographic Safari is most probably the best safari you can do, as you get to learn from fellow photographers and from your guide and get hands on experience.
Thank you for reading this.
African Photographic Safari greetings
Lourens Lee
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