Photography Podcast 101 from South Africa to New Zealand
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Photography Podcast 101 from South Africa to New Zealand
Join us on our Photography Podcast 101 from South Africa to New Zealand with Peter Withiel from Lambda Photography and Cullen from EATT Magazine. View the full images used in this podcast at https://eattmag.com/_4lO2t7fZzSa1/podcasts/photography-podcast-101/
Come with us on this very experimental episode of our Photography Podcast 101 where we’re going to ask you to really come on a journey.
Looking and listening at the same time so you can really get in here with us and see what we’re talking about, so if you can click in the link https://eattmag.com/_4lO2t7fZzSa1/photography-podcast-101/ from your phone or iPad, tablet desktop or any device, if you’ve got your computer and come on in and see the images on the website as we go through this photographic tour https://eattmag.com/_4lO2t7fZzSa1/photography-podcast-101/
I’m here with Peter Withiel.
Peter has been photographing on and off for Silicon Beach, https://siliconbeachoz.net which is another podcast I do in the startup arena, here, in Melbourne. You’ve been photographing with us I guess on enough, I suppose for the last sort of six to nine months.
In our Photography Podcast 101 we thought it was a great opportunity to share with our listeners some of your photographic philosophy Peter.
So this image that we’re looking at now is called the view of table mountain from Robben Island.
Anybody that goes to cape town who has the slightest bit of interest in history, should really take a trip to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela and all of his other friends were in prison for all that time during those years in South Africa.
But now you can go there and it’s a really good tour and this gives you a view of table mountain from the toilets on Robin Island. So it’s a stunning view from that past in history.
Cape Town sits under table mountain.
Peter uses an entry level full frame camera that’s not a full professional camera, but its the first entry level full frame camera.
I’ve got the Canon 70 to 200 F, 2.8
Onto the next image
Aquilla Game Reserve on the Waste Cape.
That’s the milky way looking up with the cottages in the foreground, within the Aquilla game reserve.
This is using the wide-angle zoom lens that’s a 16 to 35 millimeter.
With the shutter speed at about 30 seconds
So this, there’s a lot of light in the foreground and Peter has to be to be very careful not to blow out the whole photograph. as it was pitch black. And so the image was produced by working around with the exposure and the put it into Lightroom with a neutral density filter to pull back the brightness just enough to keep the integrity of the image.
Durban
A Durban sunrise at Umhlanga Pier this is in Durban at sunrise
This is with a long shutter speed with, perhaps the neutral density filter on, and the shutter speed is probably something like two minutes.
This is where the zoom with a wide angle again, so it will be an f 22. I’m on bulb mode.
In bulb mode, you can leave the shutter open as long as you want to and so it’s at about a two-minute shutter speed.
A frosty morning for two white Rhinos sleeping on the warm straw close and staying warm
White Rhinos at Aquila Game ReserveThis was a very, very cold morning. It was about minus two. So they were huddled together for warmth I suppose, but there’s quite a sad story to the rhinos. Last year they had one of them poached. And so now they’ve got a herd of about six or eight right now.
These are white rhinos where you can see with the flat mouth.
Black Rhinos are quite aggressive.
How close are you and are you? This is an open ute.
This is actually with a 100 to 400 Canon Lens with the one point four times converter. So I’m actually getting really up close to them because they’re almost next to the road, and so close today to try and get a great photograph of their eyes first thing in the morning.
This is one of the iconic Spring back.
When they run they actually jump my springs. There’s fruit around there and so they were foraging.
One of the lions looking out across the park
They have a pride of lions and this is one was the dominant male.
They were two males and about four females. He was just sitting on top of a ridge and looked rested and majestic with the blue background. Yeah. And this, this again is taken with 100 to 400
He looks very content, doesn’t eat in the evening.
So they were sitting up there in the sun.
Two elephants strolling out into the afternoon.
They are I think two relatively new additions two juveniles and if you have too many elephants in the reserve they can be very destructive.
A great shot with the light one of the Zebras
Zebra in the late afternoon sunTaken with a long lens like 200 to 400 shutter speed.
So you have to kind of pump up the ISO, but to make sure you can keep the shutter speed.
I’m at twice the focal length when you zoom into them like this.
This is another white Rhino out foraging
So that’s the dominant male lion and he was walking down that mountain towards us
I think if people have never seen these things in the wild, I mean this is a private game reserve in the wild.
You just have to see them in the wild. It’s not the same as seeing them in the zoo.
What Lens you were using for that?
A 100 to 400
Back out into the night sky
A very different closeup view with the trees.
You always treat the milky way so you kind of have to frame it in a way
There’s something called the rule of threes.
Where the photograph is split up into nine segments and if you can place your main subject into a segment or along one of these margin lines it may often but not always makes it look better.
The rule of threes always tries to frame something in the shot. And I guess it helps to tell the story, gives it some context, gives it some position in a point of frame and time.
You’ve just been to New Zealand as well, so I think you’ve got a few photos from there.
A beautiful shot of the zebra with the light coming across the main of the top.
Canola
That’s in the countryside in Western Cape. But there was snow on the mountains around there.
The restaurant at the game reserve
And on the left-hand side is a kind of apartments, flats, that you can rent as well.
You can swim between the flags at this time of the morning, there’s, the lifeguards who were just putting up the flags so people were paddling around. Yeah. But it’s, this is the Indian Ocean and it’s, as you know, they still have rips, that sort of thing.
The whole peer
When you slow down the shutter speed, that’s the effect that you get from running water or moving water and get the similar thing. If you photograph a waterfall, it is with a neutral density filter.
Is the elephant is actually eating the ostrich?
No, but it looks like it’s. And so they’re all reasonably friendly
Where are we going to next? From South Africa on the Photography Podcast to Queenstown, New Zealand.
Queenstown in South Island of New Zealand.
Mountains and snow and I think this is the quality of adventure capital of New Zealand.
Anything you want to do with your body from throwing off a mountain at high speed or underwater you can just about jump out of anything. It’s all done in Queenstown
Just to get a perspective of the color of the water and the trees that you can see there. This is fresh water.
So crystal clear there.
A rainbow above Eriks fried fish and chip shop
I wouldn’t call it graffiti. It’s more art
Find more of peters work at
https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/87625/
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