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Jun, 2016

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Sandwich bay in Namibia is only accessible by 4x4. This is provides an opportunity for a closer look at the formation of 'the world's oldest

Behind The Lens

Location

Sandwich bay in Namibia. I was there on a Holiday (of a lifetime I must add). This magical place is only accessible by 4x4. This is provides an opportunity for a closer look at the formation of 'the world's oldest desert' - its origins, its composition and its movements. Spring tides and shifting sands ensure an unpredictable route, there are many stories where people have lost their vehicles in the sea being unaware of the high-tides.

Time

This picture was in the afternoon. We had hired couple of 4x4s for this part of the trip. The car in the picture is the other car, which we were following.

Lighting

The Sun was on top and from a little behind the subject, not ideal for a shot like this what helped me was that the roof of our car was shielding my lens from the sun! What makes this shot interesting is that I was hanging on to dear life as the car was going up and down these huge dunes, I was barely managing to focus properly with only one free hand to operate the camera.

Equipment

This was shot with a Canon 6D, with a 100-400 L series lens. No other equipment was used. As I have shot through the windscreen of my Car, the photo has a hazy look but I didn't want to change the "naturalness" of the picture.

Inspiration

I had read up a lot before going to Namibia. In fact, one of the key reasons to choose Namibia was to have great photo opportunities. I generally follow this exercise before visiting any new place that I go through as many pictures possible about the place to get an Idea of different approaches that have been used already, then I try and get shots with my interpretation. So, before I took this picture, I had this in my head, it just got completed when I squeezed the shutter-release button. I guess you just feel it when you look through the view-finder that this is going to be a good one !

Editing

Very minimal processing as I am a little old -school in that sense and I believe in capturing moments as I see them. I have nothing against post-processing but I feel that too much reliance on the same leads to lazy photography but that's just me :)

In my camera bag

I think most of my good pictures are because of my good kit! I have been very fortunate to have an elder brother who had funded all my earlier lenses and camera bodies. Today, I have the following : 2 Bodies - Canon 6D and 7D Mk II, Lenses : All Canons (50 mm {F1.8} / 100-400 L Series MK II / 24-105 {F4} / 16-35 {F4} and 10-22 EF)

Feedback

As I mentioned earlier. See lot of good work done already. Create your own interpretation with this knowledge and create an image in your mind of what is your ideal photo going to look like. Read-up about the weather, so that you are prepared. Last but not the least patience - keep on taking different shots with angles, settings or as they say "walking the shot" till the time you get what you have as closes to the image you have in your mind.

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