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TO GET THE SHOT


Pete Goding, photographer for the Meet Your South Africa project, explains how he captured the image of David Quihampton on the previous page


Where was the photo taken? David, our guide at Blyde River Canyon, helped me fi nd the location just before sunrise — his expert knowledge saved time when I didn’t have the luxury of being able to explore the area myself. I then just had to work fast to fi nd my spot to capture the canyon in all its glory. I wanted to take a few images with and without a subject. I


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prefer introducing a person, animals or objects into the photo to provide scale and additional subtext. Which is where David came in handy.


How did you actually get the shot that morning? The birds were beginning to wake up at 5am and the air was crisp and cool. My


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pulse began to race as I saw the warm sun- light fl ooding through the lens with the foamy clouds spilling into the picture as if a tap had been left on behind the moun- tain. At this point, I was frantically chang- ing the shutter speeds to provide diff erent exposures to give me the greatest choice in post-production. I was trying to create as much depth of fi eld as possible, keeping the aperture at its smallest, to get as much of the landscape in focus as I could. It was chilly but I felt compelled to keep shooting. As the cloud enveloped the mountainside and beams of light appeared and disap- peared along the line of cliff s, each frame I took had a diff erent quality and warmth.


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