With today’s camera technology, it is too easy to get caught up in all the settings and buttons.
I see it all too often. We are out in the field, a great photographic opportunity presents itself, and then some people are struggling with settings and–you guessed it–they miss the shot.
Don’t get me wrong. Technology is great and it has definitely changed the way we photograph wildlife and nature, but if you make the technology your focus, you will not create better images.
It is your artistic approach, your vision, which will allow you to take better images with the use of the wonderful technology available to us.
So, with that being said, let’s use technology to teach us something about the artistic side of wildlife photography.
Apart from running Photo-Africa, I also manage a safari lodge in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa. I recently started putting up camera traps around the waterhole and we have been getting the most amazing results.
I have no idea what the settings on these basic cameras are, but they take the most amazing photos, and all of this purely because something walked in front of it.
Here are a few of the images I have been able to get off the camera traps and a few lessons you can take from it to improve your own wildlife photography.
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