Select the Right Equipment
This will, of course, depend on how experienced you are with photography, how willing you are to spend money on new equipment, and how you plan to get around.
DSLRs (Digital Single-Lens Reflex) are still the cheapest way to get a camera with a built-in viewfinder, even though the best beginner mirrorless cameras are better for people who want a more modern shooting experience.
Select the Right Accesories
A longer lens or a monopod may come in handy, especially when you are spending long hours in the bush. Tripods are hard to carry and set up in a safari vehicle because they are so big. So, we suggest bringing a beanbag or monopod, which is much easier to use.
Don’t forget to bring along your standard lens for those landscape photos. Lastly, ask our travel experts which sockets are available at our camps for when you need to charge your devices.
Shoot in RAW Format
When you move pictures from the SD card in your camera to a hard drive so you can edit them, you’ll appreciate the quality of the pictures you get from RAW data. JPEG files are processed by the camera, which causes colour data to be lost. RAW files, on the other hand, are not processed and have more colour data for you to work with when editing.
Make Use of Your Zoom Function
You can get creative with how you frame (or crop) your photos, which will make them stand out.
You can choose a very close-up shot and focus on the elephant’s eye, its skin, or the veins in its ear, for example. Or you can take a big picture and include the elephant’s surroundings.
Try out different ways to frame each scene. The results will surprise you.
