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Victoria shirt is incontrovertibly a shooter's paradise. Every which way you look your eyes feast on stirring decor. The problem is that our eyes take in the whole spectacle with ease, but to capture this immense outlook on camera isn't an easy challenge. 

 Rainbows 

The ocean of the cascade runs in an nearly east west direction, with the Zambezi swash flowing North to South. Thus the sun crosses nearly across the length of the cascade, as it passes in its bow rainbows are produced. Rainbows are created by light refracted through the water patches in the mist from the spray, so as the sun moves so do the rainbows. 

I've plant that the stylish time to get the rainbows in the right place for photos is in the autumn from 2 pm onwards. There will be rainbows in the morning but these do not appear in the right places. Heavy days sorely produce no rainbows which can be veritably frustrating. 

Time Of Year 

The time of the time is a critical factor as the seasons affect the volume of water slinging over the cascade. From December through to April/ May the Falls are typically pumping. This is spectacular to see, hear and feel but makes photography all the more grueling. Not only is it delicate occasionally to see the cascade themselves due to the huge volume of spray, but cameras obviously get soaked. It's one thing to let yourself get wet, infact I would completely recommend this as it's part of the whole experience but it isn't a good idea for precious outfit. There are colorful ways to deal with this. 

Waterproofing outfit 

 I've plant that a good sized marquee works well (these can be hired just outside the entrance to the cascade, if you have forgotten yours) for this operation you need an adjunct, as you just weren't born with enough hands. In veritably heavy spray indeed an marquee will not help though-as the spray is being blasted up as well a falling down. You'll see lots of people trying to cover their camera with their hands to shelter it from the ceaseless rain with veritably little effect. Please do not underrate the quantum of water at this time of time, if you want to take good prints and do not go set you'll walk down disappointed. 

Plastic bags work to keep your camera dry while you're walking on but are a hassle when you need to get your camera out to snap. I've tried several home made adaptation's, like cutting holes in the side of a bag for the lens to go through. But none of them were too successful. 

The stylish way of course is to buy a leakproof cover, these are available now to fit utmost cameras, you might not be suitable to justify the cost, but if you're travelling a long way and you are only doing this once you might find it worth while. I've plant a good selection at reasonable prices fromAmazon.com 

 It goes without saying, that if your budget allows, a leakproof videotape or digital camera is the easiest and stylish result. There are numerous of these on the request moment-Amazon also has a good selection of these. 

 Make sure that you take a dry lens drawing cloth with you and keep it in a leakproof bag, as a your shirt will nearly clearly get soaked and will be of little help to you when you get those many driblets of water on your lens or indeed leakproof case. 

 Time of Year 

From May onwards the Zambezi waters start to retire as we go into the dry downtime season, as the volume decreases the visibility increases as there's lower spray, but lower spray can also be less emotional. October/ November is the height of the dry season and corridor of the cascade do fully stop flowing, this is particularly apparent on the eastern cataract which forms the Zambian side of the Falls. 

 If you're staying in Zambia at this time of time-I'm sorry but you'll be disappointed and you'll need to make a border crossing to the Zimbabwe side to get a better view. 

There's thus no perfect time of time as each season has its graces and faults. Each time is also different depending on the downfall in the whole catchment receptacle which is huge. It's a matter of making the stylish of whenever you're there. 

  Pollutants 

Polaroid pollutants, if you have one, are great to enhance the colour of the sky and shadows but they will also reduce your rainbows. 

Tripods 

A tripod if you're veritably keen on taking different shots is a good idea. Generally with the sun and the white water shutter pets of your camera are veritably presto and no tripod is necessary. 

Still if you want to get a silky effect of the water flowing, you'll need to get your shutter speed down to a least 3oth/ sec. Hand holding this is obviously insolvable so a tripod in this case is vital. Because of the quantum of light you'll need to use one or 2 neutral viscosity pollutants to reduce the quantum of light and decelerate you shutter speed down. Your polarising sludge also works well then cutting out 1 to 2 f/ stops. 

 Lenses to use 

The Zimbabwe side has 16 magnific view points along its length. These take you right to the lip of the cascade. Wide angle lenses are generally the order of the day then, to take in as much of the outlook as possible. A 28 mm focal length is minimal but a 17 mm is preferable. A blowup lens is also useful at times to get tights shots of sections of the cascade for a dramatic effect.