OUR APPRENTICE says…

For this shot of an Egyptian goose [left], Lou suggested framing it to make the most of the reflection, and the lovely bronze colour of the foreground water. As with the shot of the crocodile, I set a small aperture – in this case f/10 – to get the bird sharp from its eye to its tail. This meant that the background wasn’t quite as blurred as I’d have liked. In an ideal world I’d have positioned it against a much cleaner background, but that’s not always an option when you’re floating in the middle of a crocodile-infested river!