Kudu with tongue out
Sep, 2019Views
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Location
This photo was taken while on a photography safari in Zimbabwe. The camp we stayed at was African Bush Camps - Somalisa.Time
One of my favorite images and absolutely lucky shot. I would say this was taken around midday on one of our many outings. I do believe at the time others were watching a troop of baboons on one side of our vehicle and I was distracted by the Impalas on the other. Ever so skittish it was nice to be able to capture one simply enjoying the day.Lighting
As with all things in nature, I had no control over the lighting. It was midday and the Impala was in partial shade.Equipment
I shot this image with my Nikon D500, 200-600 mm lens. Handheld in the back of a safari vehicle. 1/1000 sec, F5.6, ISO 450 20mm.Inspiration
The animal itself inspired me to take this photo. Zimbabwe and the camps we visited were inspirations. I've never been so taken with a country and her fauna. I felt so fortunate to be able to experience the wild and capture it through photography.Editing
One of my passions is to take my wildlife images and turn them into portraits. It allows the viewers to just focus on the animal and all the details and textures. My initial post is done in Lightroom where I turned the image into a B&W. I then open it up in Photoshop where I proceed to remove the background and put in a black background. Often there is painstaking clean up around the edges and areas that didn't fill neatly with the black. The end result to me is worth the pixel by pixel clean up.In my camera bag
My Nikon D500, Nikon 200-600mm lens, 55-300mm lens, several SD cards and several charged batteries. I'm definitely an over-packer as I assume I'll need everything. When in reality the 200-600mm lens rarely comes off my camera when shooting wildlife.Feedback
Patience and luck. Also, keep shooting. I had hundreds of crap images. Sometimes you just happen to click the shutter release at the right time.
