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What’s in your camera bag?

10/07/2024 Martin Africa, Birds, Birds in flight, Camera gear, Elephant, Leopard, Lion, Photo Tips, Photography, Safari, safari planning, serval, Wildlife

Just ‘cos you’ve got lots of lenses doesn’t mean you have to take them all.
If at all possible, try to take a combination that means you won’t need to constantly be changing lenses. Dust is a massive problem in Africa and every time you change lenses you are opening up both camera and lens to a potential dust invasion.

Choosing the right lenses for your safari. Updated

14/03/2023 Martin Africa, Birds, Birds in flight, Camera gear, Photo Tips, Photography, safari planning, Travel, Wildlife

Probably one of the most frequent questions we get asked by clients is “What lenses should I take on safari?”
This question is not limited to first timers either; because the equipment you need to take depends very much on where you are going and what the conditions will be like. Photographing lions on the plains of Masai Mara requires a different approach to photographing gorillas in the rainforests of Congo or Uganda, and photographing birds is very different to photographing elephants.
So how do you make the right selection?

Travelling Light

17/02/2023 Martin Birds, Birds in flight, Camera gear, Giraffe, Photo Tips, Photography, Travel

I love my Nikon gear but, if I take everything I might need I find myself lugging 15kg of equipment. Heading out in the car this is not a problem, but when flights are involved, especially flights in smaller aircraft, this becomes a bit of an issue.
I think I’ve found a workable solution.

Photographing Birds in Flight

15/05/2018 Martin Birds, Birds in flight, Botswana, Camera gear, Photo Tips, Photography, Travel, Wildlife

Photographing Birds in Flight Pied Kingfisher, Chobe River. 1/1250, f8, ISO 320. Nikkor 300mm lens + 1.4x tc The thing about birds is that they rarely sit still just to make it easy for you to photograph them. Sometimes you’re lucky and they’ll stay put long enough, but more often then not they will take to the air as[…]

Choosing the right lenses for your safari

07/03/2018 Martin Africa, Birds, Birds in flight, Camera gear, Photo Tips, Photography, Travel, Wildlife

Fabulous Farne Islands – Open Air Classroom

28/06/2017 Martin Birds, Birds in flight, Camera gear, Photo Tips, Photography, Wildlife

Farne Islands, open air classroom There is no doubt that the more you practice something the better at it you become. This is as true for wildlife photography as it is for anything else. It is very common for people to spend the first few hours in Africa just ‘getting their eye in’; familiarising themselves with the way animals move[…]