When you go on safari, the ideal is to shoot from as low a perspective as possible. This gives the animals greater stature. In East Africa, most of the vehicles give you an option of shooting out of a roof hatch. This is more comfortable than kneeling and twisting to shoot out of a side window, but it places the camera position too high. Even side windows arent low enough for me, but since photographers have to be in vehicles for protection, there are no other choices. When I took the picture of the snarling lion, I was in an open vehicle in Namibia. I leaned out of the land rover and hung down as low as I could to shoot this with a 300mm lens. When you use longer lenses such as 500mm or 600mm focal lengths for animals further away, they appear to be at eye level because the lens is parallel with the ground. Its when subjects are close to the vehicle that you should avoid shooting down on them. When my group found the lion cub, it was several feet off the ground in a tree. That make the perspective perfect.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:08:39 +0000
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