Wildlife Photography with an iPhone
On the road to Etosha National Park, on one of many trips to Namibia, me and my companions were robbed. My camera bodies, lenses and laptop I had brought for the trip were gone.
What I had left was an iPhone 14 Pro Max and a booking I still intended to keep.
Working with harsh light
Wildlife photograhers usually love light, and often find ourselves wanting more of it. But there is another side to this coin. Harsh, strong light is difficult. It produces deep, hard-edged shadows, reduces colour saturation, and can blow highlights.
But how do you stop treating harsh midday light as an inferior medium, and start working with it’s actual characteristics?
On Wildlife Photography
Plenty of guides promise to teach you how to take better wildlife photographs in a few easy steps. This is not one of them.
What follows are observations that have stayed with me after years of working in the field. They are not rules. They are closer to preferences that have proved as useful as most of the technical advice I once collected so carefully.