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WINNING PHOTO
SAMPIE SWANEPOEL
Canon EOS R6
Canon RF 600mm lens
TOAST SAYS: Savuti is one of Botswana’s truly wild places.You can only reach it by 4×4 and the sandy jeep tracks ensure that only Chuck Norris types ever take the time to go there. Sampie must be one of them…
He used a 600mm lens, long enough to bring these elephants much closer. His shutter speed was 1/1 250 second. Remember, even when the animals in your photo aren’t moving around much, it’s important to use a fast shutter speed when you’re shooting with a telephoto lens because it will prevent camera shake.
I like the dramatic difference between the wet, mud-covered elephants in the foreground and the dry ellie at theif we could see each elephant’s head clearly.)
