I was quite keen to go to Marakele as I have seen a number of stunning photos taken at Marakele and the camp site is not fenced allowing the animals to move through the camp-site.
Especially the Rhino visit the camp site regularly and walk among the tents and caravans. There is also a water hole about 500m from the camp sites and the Zebra/Kudu/Impala can be seen looking out of your tent.
We got some stunning rhino shots right outside our tent. At the other end of the reserve you can drive up the mountain to a looking point with a fairly large vulture colony.
The aim driving up to the lookout point was to try and get shots of the vultures, but they proved elusive and never came close enough to make a good shot. The view from the mountain however was stunning with both beautiful sunrises and sun sets.
The photo was taken at 16:50 into the sun. With the sky correctly exposed but with the foreground quite under exposed.
The technical details:
- Canon 1Ds III
- Canon 17-40 F/4
- Focal length : 17mm (Giving a ultra wide view on the FF body allowing the vastness of the scene to be visible)
- ISO : 100 (Choose low ISO to reduce noise and since there was lots of light.)
- Shutter Speed : 1/400
- Aperture : F/10.0 (Used a small aperture for more Depth of field)
- Aperture priority
- Spot metering - took metering against the sky to prevent losing highlights
- Mounted on a tripod - I initially wanted to take make HDR image
I
then processed the RAW image in Lightroom setting
- Highlights : +100
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Shadows : -100
Shooting in RAW allows a lot more room for processing afterwards especially to recover highlights or shadow detail. The original RAW result, before processing, is shown on the right.
Phillip Grobler 3*
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