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A seal's lunch

Leopard seal defeathering penguin before eating. Bellinghausen Sea February 2016

Leopard seal defeathering penguin before eating. Bellinghausen Sea February 2016
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Jun, 2016

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Behind The Lens

Location

The shot was taken on a photo trip to Antarctic. I’ve always wanted to go there, but was not interested in the passage crossing. Flew to the Chilean base to meet the ship. While in a zodiac the leopard shark attacked a penguin right beside us.

Time

This was taken in the morning, I have a series of images from penguin swimming in the water to seal with big chunk of meat in its mouth.

Lighting

The lighting was totally natural, sky was slightly overcast and sun as low.

Equipment

Shot with a Canon 7D mk II and 100-400mm lens

Inspiration

It was a total surprise when the seal attacked the penguin next to the boat. I quickly started shooting, the series is the most dramatic I’ve shot.

Editing

Some post processing, crop, PK sharpening was about all I did.

In my camera bag

I always carry a macro lens, currently Tamron’s 90mm and/or Canon 180mm. For wildlife Canon 100-400 is always with me. Now have a 200-400 mm I use when going to sit in a blind. Recently acquired an Olympus with 2x sensor for a somewhat more portable kit for hiking.

Feedback

When out in the wild, always have camera in your hand, with general settings for the circumstances, shutter set to multiple rapid shots is important. One out of 100 shots will be good. Doesn’t cost anything to delete the misses, and the one gorgeous one won’t be missed.

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A seal's lunch

Leopard seal defeathering penguin before eating. Bellinghausen Sea February 2016

Behind The Lens

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