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ATTENTION TO ALMOST INVISIBLE DETAIL

By blog, Camera teqhnique, Latest News
I wonder how many of you can relate to this scenario?  You are excited beyond reason to be at a wildlife sighting that you have yearned to see and capture images of for a very long time.  So excited, that you grab your camera and shoot away non stop frame after frame.  The adrenaline rush takes over and very little thought is given to YOUR CAMERA SETTINGS, THE SURROUNDINGS, THE LIGHT and as the sighting unfolds before you, THE CHANGES that need to be made to your camera. Subsequently, when you excitedly look at your pictures, you are terribly disappointed and you get this awful sinking feeling of a missed opportunity!!! I am not going to tackle the more obvious photographically technical side of things in this blog.  I will tackle them in future blogs, but I want to highlight and point out how your  “often forgotten” invisible surroundings can drastically affect the final outcome of your pictures. You may not have heard the expression “Clean Background” used in photography before.  This refers to a picture of an animal or creature where the subject matter and its surroundings allow you to successfully capture an uninhibited image with no distracting backgrounds/foregrounds.  When showing your pictures, you would like the viewers primary focus to be drawn to the main subject matter, not to a log or tree or highly coloured object, that has also inadvertently been included within the frame! In order to achieve this type of shot, I really encourage you to curb your excitement, stop and “take...
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PHOTO SAFARI DATES – 2020

By Latest News, Upcoming Tours
TIMBAVATI                           16th to 22nd October 2020             only 2 spaces left!                           13th to 19th November 2020          FILLED!                                               contact JOHN STEWART on 083-722-6021 or john@stewartphotography.co.za STAY AT THE LUXUARY SAFARI LODGE We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have special pricing at the new Rockfig Safari Lodge in the Timbavati, which has: luxurious, fully-catered suite accommodation in the new luxury lodge indoor and outdoor showers, bath, and bathroom en suite indoor and outdoor showers, bath, and bathroom en suite a minibar and private verandah indoor and outdoor guest areas, infinity-edge pool and boma waterhole and unrestricted view of the bush from the open-air “lounge”   Click to see more about the lodge Rockfig Safari Lodge  
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BUFFALO CHASING MALE LION

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Come along with us! We're on an afternoon game drive, near Shingwedze camp, Kruger National Park. We head out in the mid-afternoon so we can get a little distance between us and the camp before the light becomes stunning. We're driving along the river road, not seeing much because it's still very hot. Suddenly, we spot a lone female buffalo coming to the top of a fairly deep gorge on our left-hand side. We stop and watch. Then she turns around and heads back down and we can't see her anymore! We continue to watch, carefully scouring the bush around us! Then we spot one lion, then another, then another two.  We finally see SEVEN lions - one very large male, one female, and five fairly large sub-adults! They are all on our side of the gorge. They all suddenly head down into the gorge as well! The next thing we see is a glimpse of the female buffalo running into the water with a sub-adult lion riding on her back! Despite not being able to take a single photo at the time, it's a memory we will never forget! We watch for about 15 minutes as the female Buffalo tries to get out of the waterhole, only to be chased back by the sub-adults. She then suddenly - and very luckily for us - comes up the side of the gorge and onto the road. She moves across now to our right-hand side. She's tireless in chasing the young...
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