Johan Botha - South Africa
MPSSA Hon FPSSA FAPS EFIAP ARPS EPSSA SPSA
Wildlife Photography my Way: Musts, Myths and Tips
Bio
Dr Johan Botha has been an active Wildlife photographer for 28 years in Africa, specifically South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania and he has also photographed extensively in Alaska, Antarctica, South America, Australia, Europe and the United States.
Category winner in both the UK Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition as well as a category winner in the Natures Best Magazine Competition in the USA. He was also honoured as South African Wildlife Photographer of the year.
Johan’s work has been widely published in various magazines, calendars etc .. and exhibited in South Africa, the Natural History Museum in London and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. He holds photographic honours from the national photographic societies in the countries of South Africa, UK, USA, Australia and Europe (FIAP). He has published two books on wildlife photography.
Wildlife Photography my Way: Musts, Myths and Tips
Successful wildlife photography means different things to different photographers. For some it is to get an image of a unique animal or bird. For others it is simply to get an image to post on Facebook or to use in a salon or to sell. For me it is to get an extraordinary wildlife image. Extraordinary is defined as the one or only of a kind or type or rare situation. Such images require very hard individual work and patience in the bush as well as knowledge of the wildlife behaviour, environmental conditions and equipment. You must be able to apply this knowledge without really thinking (quickly). Only then will you be able to predict what is going to happen and to capture an extraordinary wildlife image. I will be discussing in my talk some musts, and myths in this regard and I give some tips to capture extraordinary wildlife images by sharing some examples.
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Thank you so much for your feedback, Margaret, it helps a lot. There are no catch lights in Mateeza's eyes in this one due to the almost foot long (so it seemed to me!) false eyelashes.
A stunning headpiece and the corgi has excellent camera contact as does Mateeza. I always prefer to see catchlights in a person's eyes and here the dog has them but not Mateeze. Perhaps some fill light might have achieved that?