The five "P's" To further develop your untamed life photography
The slogans "Proper planning prevents poor performance" and "Proper planning creates perfect photos" have been used to promote the five "Ps" for improving photography in general, but there are no specifics about wildlife photography.
As a result, we have compiled a list of five "P's" that, if followed, will assist you in taking better photographs of wildlife.
passion – This is the most important factor because the other four will naturally come to you if you are passionate about photography, animals, and being in deserts. Wildlife photography gives you the ability to take pictures that make people say "Wow" and convey that to others. Photography is also about sharing your passions with the world through your images.
patience is required to see animals like Africa's big five, super seven, and elusive eleven. You will need to drive slowly and stay in waterholes and hides for a long time. You likewise should be ready to show restraint in extreme circumstances. In the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, for instance, we captured a cheetah pursuing and killing a springbok over the course of four hours in the heat of the midday summer. In Etosha, we also sit at waterholes until after midnight to photograph unusual animals. This requires tolerance, yet we are compensated with incredible photographs!
practice – The adage "practice makes perfect" is absolutely accurate. You can't anticipate coming on an African safari without routinely involving your camera and focal points in the months paving the way to it. We can frequently go on safaris because we live close to Pilanesberg Game Reserve and Kruger National Park. Even if you don't live near a national park, there are still plenty of other ways to practice. You can take pictures of your pets, the garden's insects and birds, landscapes, sunsets, the moon, and lightning. And just because you like to take pictures of wildlife doesn't mean you shouldn't also take pictures of people, cars, and airplanes to keep up your practice!
Preparation: You must be familiar with how to operate your camera. This means reading the instruction manual for your camera, as well as reading or listening to photography books, online tutorials, site/park guides, animal behavior books, e-books, and interviews with wildlife photographers.
Goal: We didn't have a goal when we started doing self-guided photo safaris. We would leave the camp in the morning and search for things throughout the day. Our proverb was, "Assuming that it moves, we'll photo it!" This is classified "subject-arranged photography": No matter how the lighting is, where the subject is, or what they are doing, we see them and take a picture. photography isn't awful; not suitable for photographing wildlife. It works for macro photography, where you control the light and subject placement, as well as studio photography.
"Situation driven" photography is a type of wildlife photography in which you must have a goal. Our objective has now moved from subject-headed to situational or light-determined photography. We search for subjects in great light, as we want to get great photographs of any creature. Ordinarily we have passed lion sightings and the people who have halted check out at us in astonishment! We don't need terrible photographs of lions, yet we need to find different subjects in great lighting, subsequently giving WOW photographs.