African Wildlife Photography Tips
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by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
African Wildlife Photography Tips - Table of Contents 10 Simple African Wildlife Photography Tips There is always something we as photographers can do better. Just as with most things in life, there is always room for improvement in almost everything we do.  As wildlife and nature photographers it could mean upgrading/changing equipm ..read more
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Low Light Wildlife Photography
Tony Sparkes Wildlife & Photographic Safaris
by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
Low Light Wildlife Photography Tips for Low Light Photography As wildlife photographers, we know that the soft and often ‘golden’ light that we crave and that sets those ‘creative’ wildlife photographs apart from those in many cases that are taken in the harsh midday sun comes at a cost. That cost is the ‘ambient light‘ or the lack of it should I say. Its a fact that many animals are most active early in th ..read more
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Bonamanzi Game Reserve
Tony Sparkes Wildlife & Photographic Safaris
by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
Bonamanzi Game Reserve Birding Tour - Bonamanzi Game Reserve - Hluhluwe Four-day birding tour November 9th -13th 2019 – Bonamanzi Game Reserve – KwaZulu Natal – South Africa Where is Bonamazi Bonamanzi Game Reserve is located just a few kilometres from the KwaZulu Nat ..read more
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How to Delete Rejected Photos in Lightroom
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by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
How to Delete Rejected Photos in Lightroom Easily Reject and Delete Photographs in Lightroom I have just returned from a recent photo shoot with hundreds of photographs, which I have just uploaded to my computer. Using Lightroom CC, I thought it would be a good idea just to let you all know of my preferred method of quickly culling photos in Lightroom that are not wanted ie. those that are out of focus, badl ..read more
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What is a Photography Safari
Tony Sparkes Wildlife & Photographic Safaris
by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
What is a Photo Safari? What is a Photography Safari - Some Answers What is a photography Safari? As a professional wildlife photographer and nature guide here in South Africa, many of our safaris and tours I lead both here in South and Southern Africa and indeed internationally are marketed as ‘photo safaris’. In this blog post I thought it would be helpful to answer some of these common questions, What ha ..read more
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How to Read an Image Histogram
Tony Sparkes Wildlife & Photographic Safaris
by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
How to Read an Image Histogram Histograms in Photography The selection of the camera settings for your wildlife photography, will have direct bearing and influence on your images histogram. How to read your camera’s image histogram? This is something I often get asked about by many people. What is that graph that’s showing on the camera? Of course, they are talking about the ‘image histogram’. Explaining co ..read more
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Setting Black and White Points
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by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
Lightroom Workflow - Setting Black and White Points Lightroom Workflow - Setting Your Black and White Points 4 Easy Ways The ‘whites’ and ‘blacks’ sliders in Lightroom CC control the very brightest and very darkest parts of your image (the two narrow ends of the histogram). In this lightroom basics tutorial, I am going to show four different ways you can easily set the white and black point of your image us ..read more
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African Safari Animals
Tony Sparkes Wildlife & Photographic Safaris
by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
African Safari Animals African Safari Animals – And Where to Find Them Giraffe Zebra Hippopotamas Wild Dog ..read more
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Camera Settings for Wildlife Photography
Tony Sparkes Wildlife & Photographic Safaris
by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
Camera Settings For Wildlife Photography Over the years I think like many wildlife photographers, I use to religiously go to the semi-automatic camera setting ‘aperture priority’ or AV ‘aperture value’ for Canon DSLR users or A ‘aperture’ for Nikon DSLR users. Low Light Wildlife Photography – Don’t use Aperture Priority! By adjusting the camera’s aperture setting, (which invariable needs to be ‘wide’ open anyway in low light) using the low F numbers like F2.8, F4, or F5.6 ..read more
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Safari Animals | Big Five of Africa
Tony Sparkes Wildlife & Photographic Safaris
by Tony Sparkes
4y ago
Safari Animals   Big 5 Safari Animals The big five large safari animals of Southern Africa. How did these five safari animals the Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Rhinoceros and Leopard come to be called the Big Five? It was originally a hunting term used by the so-called ‘Great White Hunters’ in the hunting heyday of the 19th and early 20th centuries when professional hunters bagged as many trophies as possible in as short a time as possible. It was considered a rite of ..read more
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