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Successful photography on a safari requires knowing your subjects and your equipment. We present some articles to help in addition to what you will learn while with us.

Posted onOctober 11, 2014April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Correcting a Leopard Image in Lightroom

Taking a Good Photo to the Next Level using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop using curves and color correction to make the image even better.

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Posted onSeptember 29, 2014April 1, 2020African Wildlife

Photographing Giraffes

Giraffes were abundant on my latest safari. My guests had loads of fun photographing our resident herd and those in Kruger.

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Posted onSeptember 2, 2014April 1, 2020African Wildlife

Know Your Subject: Elephant Bonding and Greeting with Their Trunks

For a wildlife photographer, the more you know your subject,  the better informed your images will be.  Knowledge helps you anticipate and interpret the natural actions of your subjects.

Elephants are very smart and interesting subjects, especially when you can pick out social behaviors – some you may recognize from our own human experience.

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Posted onAugust 1, 2014April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Using the Curves Tool in Lightroom

This tutorial explains how to use the Tone Curve tool in Adobe’s Lightroom 4 to adjust the contrast in an image and use the channel curves to further correct tone and color.

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Posted onJuly 8, 2014April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Lightroom Color Correction: Beyond White Balance

The morning light on this nyala  is a nice touch, but the image could use a bit more contrast and the warm light is making all the colors in the image a bit off.  The White Balance tool in Lightroom will help, but using a few more advanced tools will really make this image look great.

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Posted onApril 27, 2014March 31, 2020African Wildlife

Safari Story: Ox Peckers are Everyone’s Friend

While we sit and watch the majestic large mammals grazing and herding in front of our open safari vehicle we are not aware of a the subplot playing out around us.  The ox pecker is hard at work rushing about the backs of the animals  cleaning ticks and other parasites from their hides  and their cries go unnoticed by us among the other noises of the bushveld.

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Posted onOctober 8, 2013April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Boosting Color using Split Toning in Lightroom

I discuss how to use the Split Toning tool to boost the color of a image which seems a bit flat.

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Posted onMay 21, 2013April 1, 2020African Wildlife

Enhancing Wildlife Eyes

In this tutorial I show you how to correct “red eye” in wildlife image and then enhance the eyes to be more intense.

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Posted onMay 15, 2012April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Composition in African Wildlife Photography

African wildlife images often fall into three categories: Animal Portraits, Animals with Environment, and Animal Groups. Applying basic principles of compositions such as Rule of Thirds, leading lines, and negative space makes for optimal photographic compositions.

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Posted onOctober 7, 2011April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Look for the Picture within a Picture

Use cropping on a mediocre image to hone in on a detail – the best of the image. In a photo there may be a really great detail that can star as its own image with better composition than the original. Challenge yourself to find ways to take a blah photo to a great one.

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