There we are guys. We're all set! Finally, we're allowed back on the river.
Yeah! Can't wait it almost feels funny going out again. The water is so high.
We have the whole river to ourselves. Captain Phenyo will you please start the
boat and let us get out there. All ready? All right.
Really cool. Our first wild animal. We were hardly 50 meters in the park
and we already have a Waterbuck. Just look how calm it is. Not even
bothered by us. With my 500mm I'm a little bit close but I am gonna make a
nice vertical portrait of it and see what I get.
There we see a nice big Nile Crocodile. To get this shot we're going a bit lower taking our
cameras off the chair and then get that nice low angle from eye level with the croc.
What could work well is very very big underexposing maybe -3 or -4
just to get the beautiful white teeth and nothing of the crocodile.
Make that all black. Let's see how that works.
Just white teeth.
What do they say? You can never go too low!
Phenyo, maybe you can get us a little bit closer?
It's a nice opportunity to get some really nice close-ups and details.
So, in this case, I'll definitely focus on the teeth. Underexpose the teeth a little bit or
just focus on that eye or even the detail. Look at the nice texture of the
crocodile. So between the two feet of him. Very nice texture. The tail and you
can get some really cool nice shots being this close to a big Nile Crocodile.
Being so close to him we need to be a bit careful about our depth of field.
Where you want to focus because this is now millimetre work. I'm just half a millimetre
off his eye, it's not going to be sharp anymore.
The alternative is to increase your f-stop but I like that shallow depth of field.
Its really pretty.
Let's see what else we can find
That's a water monitor lizard there.
I spotted 2 -
excuse me.
Are we having a countdown today?
I really like the texture of that front, what do you call it....feet, paw?
Claw.
Claw on the texture of the tree with a nice rough background ground.
See all the holes in the riverbanks? That's where we have the Pied kingfishers
nesting this time of year. There was just one going inside the
hole so let's see if we can catch it if it comes out. Quite a fast shutter speed
for small birds roughly 1/4000s. The light is still good. I'm also gonna
bring my f-stop up to about 7.1.
I missed it! Charl was clicking. Did you get it?
Looks good. In focus.
Let's see if find another one.
Phenyo, come a bit closer and try it as well.
Nice! Look at that. Awesome.
We found some hippos here munching happily away on the grass.
We're looking a little bit into the shadow now so we'll see how far we can
push into these grasses without getting tangled up. Because it would be nice to
see their sunny side and then get the shot when they just open their mouth and
the water comes down from their big teeth.
Unfortunately, the grass is a bit too thick here so we can't push in any
further. The shadows are quite harsh.
It's still really really lovely to watch.
Just sit and observe. Not everything is a picture.
Just beautiful to see.
I think we've got perfect timing here today. Just as The Sun starts going down
and the light is getting really beautiful. We find this breeding herd of elephants.
It's stunning. They need to separate a little bit. I'm looking for eyes and looking
for patterns on their skin. One has a lot of mud on it and that baby always
comes and plays in between.
There we get some sunlight on him.
Usually, Chobe never disappoints with elephants.
beautiful breeding herd coming down
to the water. Lovely light. That perfect golden light. A young one
playing in the middle. Just amazing pictures.
we've got these flaps turning around so we can go nice and low as low as we
possibly can. Just to get those low angle special shots from the river.
Elephants are very used to boats on this river. We are very happy to see that they not
forgotten about boats and they are still okay with us being around.
We don't bother them at all. They don't seem agitated, so perfect!
So again with the 500mm, I'm a little bit close. So I'm concentrating more on some details
and I love how the light's falling on the trunk. Separation from the other
elephants. Because you see really nicely the details of the hair on the trunk.
Beautiful golden light. Just love it.
We've got that lovely beautiful late afternoon sun hitting the white tusks
of some of the elephant's behind in the shadow.
So by underexposing on that white tusk you can make the background completely
dark and you have the beautiful white tusk just popping out. It's actually quite nice.
We had the elephant coming right to the boat. Just in the front
of it and he looked right at us. Beautiful with the
late afternoon Sun. We managed to get a bit of detail on the eye.
Finally our first afternoon on the river. That was pretty cool.
Yeah so cool to be out here again finally. So lucky. Amazing light.
Having the whole Chobe River Front to ourselves. Not one boat. Pretty cool.
But let's hope you have some boats soon again. We're waiting for you guys.
We can't wait to show you how amazing the Chobe River is.
It's pretty awesome out here.
Thank you. Come join us on the photo boat. Bye-bye.