Title: ‘Seriously Hungry’’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 500mm, 1/320 sec at F8.0 ISO 100, tripod.
A female paradise Flycatcher feeding is young. Post process in DXO Pure Raw and lightroom.
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Title: ‘Night Closing In’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 200mm, 1/1250 sec at F4.0 ISO 400, hand held. Image was shot at midday under heavily overcast skies resulting in a very flat image out of camera. I decided to go with a low key edit and cooled the white balance to give a feeling of pending nightfall and increase the drama of the ima…Read More

Title: ‘White-Backed Vulture’’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 600mm, 1/800 sec at F6.3 ISO 125, hand held. I deliberately under-exposed the image to give me a low ISO and high shutter speed as I was hand holding, trusting in Canon and Lightroom to recover the subject in post.
Shot in Kruger. Initial post process in DXO Pure Raw and lightroom and t…Read More

Recrop of White Rhino submitted earlier
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Title: ‘Ever watchful’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 480mm, 1/800 sec at f7.1, ISO 200
I wanted to look at creating more of an artistic feel to a shot of a beautiful kudu bull. Initial post process in lightroom and into Photoshop for an Oil Painting filter. I think it may work well as a canvass print?
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Title: ‘Waterfight’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 250mm, 1/1000 sec at f8.0, ISO 640
Two Red Knobbed Coots in a territorial dispute.
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Title: ‘Lurie with Aloe Flowers’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 450mm, 1/1250 sec at f8.0, ISO 1250
Shot at Cedar Lakes in Fourways
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Hunting at Sunset
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 600mm, 1/800 sec at F6.3, ISO 4000
Sitting at a waterhole at last light, he suddenly appeared and started walking towards a heard of impala. Very little time to get the shot and the long grass made focusing extremely tricky.
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Title: ‘Wings of Fire’’
5DMk4, Tamron 70-200mm with x1.4 Converter, 1/1600 sec at F3.5, ISO 500
Conventional wisdom, when shooting Birds in Flight at sunset is to keep the sun at your back. But sometimes it pays to break the rules. I shot this straight into the setting sun hoping for a few golden highlights under the wings. Initial post proce…Read More

Title: ‘Sunrise at Scottburgh’ (Re-submission)
5DMk4, Tamron 18-55mm, 1/100 sec at F6.3, ISO 1000
I think the interesting cloud formation added significantly to this image. No, it’s not AI!
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Title: ‘Driftwood’
5DMk4, Tamron 18-55mm, 1/160 sec at F4.3, ISO 1000
Not a particularly dramatic image out of camera, so I decided to really push the post processing and I quite like the result. Love to hear thoughts and comments.
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Title: ‘Sunrise at Scottburgh’
5DMk4, Tamron 18-55mm, 1/100 sec at F6.3, ISO 1000
I think the interesting cloud formation added significantly to this image. No, it’s not AI!
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Title: ‘Happy Hour’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm, 1/1000 sec at F5.6, ISO 100
This was taken in the early morning into a rising sun. I needed to retain enough data in the shadows to give a bit of detail hence the high shutter speed. I had taken a number of fairly boring shots when the bull decided he would come to the party and complete the c…Read More

Title: ‘Dawn on the Beach’
5DMk4, Tamron 18-55mm, 1/60 sec at F5, ISO 250
A shot I took a year ago but felt The Adamsky Effect would work quite well so I did a re-edit and I like it.
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Recommendations on an affordable, but good, cel gimbal for real estate interiors? Appreciate any guidance as there seem to be lots around but I suspect of questionable quality.

Title: ‘Jelly and Yoghurt’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm, 1/250 sec at F4, ISO 12800, Available light. DXO Pure Raw for sharpen and de-noise, edit in Lightroom
Subject was lit only by two paraffin lamps which I hoped would give a soft warm light enhancing the charm of the shot.

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I’m looking for a 16mm prime or similar to fit a Canon DSLR EF mount

“Portrait of a Dung Beetle”
5DMk4, Tamron70-200 at 88mm with 36mm extension tube, 4 sec at f11.0, ISO 100, 22 Exposures focused stacked in Photoshop and finished in Lightroom.
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“Close of a Year”
5DMk4, Tamron24-70, 1/500 sec at f8.0, ISO 100, Post in Lightroom.
Last light at Cedar Lakes on 31 December 2023.
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Any suggestions on where to go for royalty free music to use in videos?

“Bridal Party”
5DMk4, Tamron24-70, 1/60 sec at f6.3, ISO 600, Post in Lightroom, Silver Efex Pro.
Taken at my daughter’s wedding on Saturday
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“El Camino at Dawn”
5DMk4, Tamron24-70, 1/6400 sec at f5.6, ISO 250, Post in Lightroom.
Shot for a client at Hartebeespoort Dam
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“Footsteps”
5DMk4, Tamron70-200, 1/200 sec at f8.0, ISO 250, Tripod, Godox 685 Speedlight gelled magenta camera left and Yongnuo YN600 gelled cyan camera right.
Shot in my ‘home studio’ (read garage) with a black cloth background. Shot as a dramatic colour image. Post production in Lightroom and Photoshop, background from Google images.

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Your thoughts please.
5DMk4, Samyang 2.8 14mm, 1/15 sec at f5.6, ISO 200, Tripod. Post in lightroom. My question is this: The first edit, the darker one, is fairly close to the actual look and feel of the house but the agent asked me to do a lighter edit. Love to hear thoughts on this. Looking through portfolios of photographers specialising in…Read More

‘Blue Room’
5DMk4, Tamron 24-70mm, 1/400 sec at F656, ISO 1600, handheld. Two images with different exposures, one at 1/400 and one at 1/10, sharpened and noise removed in DXO Pure Raw, combined in HDR and edited in Lightroom. Taken at Oakview Mannor in Heidelberg. I was there to cover an event and had literally a few seconds to try to get som…Read More

‘White Backed Liftoff’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm, 1/400 sec at F6.3, ISO 100.Sharpening and noise removal in DXO Pure Raw, Edit in Lightroom. A White Backed vulture taking off next to the Doispan Road, Kruger.
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‘Close Combat’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm, 1/2500 sec at F6.3, ISO 8000, Edit in Lightroom. Two Crowned Hornbills sorting out their differences. Taken at Burchells Bush Lodge just outside Kruger Gate.
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‘Fish Eagle Strike’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm, 1/2500 sec at F8, ISO 5000, Basic edit in Lightroom, Photoshop for deep etching to separate subject and background, Lightroom for final edit. Taken at Lake Panic, Kruger.
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“The Watcher” (Revised Crop)
Canon 5DMk4, Tamron 24-70mm, 1/200 sec at f8.0, ISO 200,
Flash: Main – Godox AD600BM camera left, Fill – Godox TT685 speedlight camera right. Initial sharpening in DXO Pure Raw, basic edit in Lightroom, into Photoshop for background extension and back to Lightroom for final edit.
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Title: ‘Conflicting Stripes’
5DMk4, Tamron 150-600mm, 1/1000 sec at F5.6, ISO 400, Basic edit in Lightroom, Photoshop for deep etching, Lightroom for final edit.
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Title: ‘The Girl with Pearls’
Camera: Canon 5dMk4
Lens: Tamron 70 – 200mm
Details: 1/200 sec at f8.0, ISO 250
Flash: Main – Godox AD600BM camera left, Fill – Godox TT685 speedlight camera right.
Originally shot for colour, magenta on one side of the face with a blue fill light, I felt it could also work as a dramatic black and white.

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‘Conflicting Stripes’

Cannon 5Dmk4, Tamron 150-600mm, 1/1000sec, F5.6, ISO400

Shot in the Umbabat a few weeks ago.

Capturing Wildlife in Low Light

The Night Stalker

1/250sec, f6.3, ISO 1200 Canon 5dmk4, Tamron 150-600mm at 600mm, Handheld, Manual.

It was pretty dark when this Gray heron arrived at the waterhole to start hunting for supper.