The good news is that given the distance from the lens to the ground, depth of field is not an issue so an f stop in the order of f4 or even wider will suffice. The aircraft is constantly bouncing around and it is rare that you can keep your camera body and lens completely still. The most important point is that you need a consistently high shutter speed. If the lens protrudes even a few centimetres out the door, it will be whipped back by the gale force wind rushing past the plane’s fuselage. I find with this set up that I can rapidly switch between each rig. Both bodies with attached lenses are draped around my neck via camera straps. On one body I use either a 16-35mm lens or more preferably a 24-70mm lens. I always use two camera bodies with two lenses. Lesser Flamingos flying over shallow water with black silt trails visible (aerial shot), Lake Logipi, KenyaĪ word on aerial photography. The lake is fed by the Seguta River but it too is seasonal and usually stops flowing in the dry months. Day time temperatures on the lake are in the 40s c so it is not surprising that evaporation rates are high. Three months later and water levels have declined dramatically. After unusually heavy rains in the area in May last year, the entire lake filled with water and when I photographed it at the end of October, most of the lake was full. Where there is water, there are inevitably throngs of Lesser Flamingos. Conditions are always different because of varying water levels, although even when full, the water is rarely more than a few feet deep. I have photographed this seasonal, soda lake from the air on several occasions and it never fails to thrill. From there, we made the short hop to magical Lake Logipi, located just south of Lake Turkana. After an hour of flying north, we landed at a remote and seldomly used airstrip, where we removed the doors on one side of the aircraft. To get to Lake Turkana I used my trusted pilot, Christian. Instead, I headed north to the Lake Turkana area and then south to Lake Natron, two destinations that I have come to love over the years. This was one of the rare Kenya trips where I did not venture to the Masai Mara. However, although the flight is long (13 hours), it is direct, and once in Kenya I was able to accomplish a surprising amount photographically. Yes, this seems a ridiculously short period after journeying for so long. Hence I recently made a 4-day trip to Kenya. With a 5 month old baby at home, I have been trying to restrict my wild encounter sojourns to short ones, especially as I have some longer trips coming up and a particularly lengthy one at the end of the year.
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