Basic Settings for Wildlife & Outdoor Photography

« Roger de la Harpe is a freelance photographer based in South Africa. He has long had a passion for conservation, natural history, wild places and indigenous cultures and has plied his trade in various regions of the African continent for 25 years. With his wife Pat, he has published 27 coffee-table books, the most recent of which,

African Icons

, celebrates Africa’s most iconic features and creatures. Two previous books,

In Search of the African Wild Dog

and

In Search of the African Lion

, have a strong conservation focus. Roger and Pat also own and manage Africa Imagery, an online database of over 45 000 images of the people, wildlife and landscapes of the African continent.

Let’s look at some basic settings and, as always, there will be any number of