Hello! Today I want to talk about a trip I took to Madhya Pradesh, specifically to a city named Panna. There, I spent a few days with friends and family. On one fine day, we had booked an evening safari. It was roughly more than an hour. It was my first time ever going to a safari and seeing such variety of species and wildlife. It was a great opportunity for photography and I took it.
The safari started out quite calm and ended quite calm as well. To my disappointment, we did not get to see any tigers or leopards but we did see a few langurs, vultures, swamp deer, a kingfisher, and many spotted deers along with many species of birds.
For me, the camera I currently did quite a good job but I do think an upgrade along with a good solid lens would do me some good. Some photos came out quite pixelated, unclear and distorted at times because of the zoom, like these of a vulture -
Therefore, I think I might get one of the new Sony compact cameras as soon as they come out where I live. They might help me a lot especially with their new autofocus technology for humans and animals. Aside from that, it was a great experience. The landscape by itself was also quite beautiful, especially around the evening.
These pictures will be up on the portfolio in a bit of time for you to be able to view properly, some under the nature section and some under a new wildlife category. Please go have a look!
What I've learned from my first experience with wildlife photography are a couple of things.
First thing would definitely be photo composition. From how you frame the picture, to what zoom, to what equipment and lens you use, it all matters. For me, I felt like my camera was a bit under-equipped for this scenario. I feel like having a solid adjustable lens with a wide range for focal length and a mirrorless camera with a good image sensor would be a better setup for this case. A tripod would be icing on the cake. Also, framing the picture is a way to decide what story you tell through a picture and how you tell it. It is one's artistic intention to keep something in a picture or not, to keep it out of frame or inside. It can add to a picture to take away from it.
Another thing that wildlife photography in my scenario particularly required was patience. I had to be patient and not move in order to capture the desired image. Sometimes, in hurry, a really good picture that I could've taken comes out a bit shaky. It requires a lot of patience. One has to wait for long at times without any movement to be able to see something. You have to be calm and patient, only then will you get the full desired result.
Wildlife is also about chance. So don't be sad if you don't get to see something you had high hopes to see. You might see it the next time! It all depends on luck.
These are the three main things I learned. Thank you for checking out this article! My next article comes out on the 1st of November, and it will be about another, more experienced photographer and some conversation I had with him.
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