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Family meal time

A mother Leopard and young one feast on an Impala after they dragged it up a tree!

A mother Leopard and young one feast on an Impala after they dragged it up a tree!
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III

settings

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 500 Shutter 1/400 Focal Length 270/1

upload_date

Oct, 2017

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840

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Awards

Contest Finalist in The African Continent Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Food Chain Struggles Photo Contest

Peer Award

+15

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken on safari in Tanzania. I was part of a photography tour, hosted by Discovery Photo Tours (https://www.discoveryphototours.com/). I highly recommend this tour and the tour company (and I am in no way affiliated with them, just a happy customer)

Time

This was shot in the morning, we had lovely soft light, despite it being about 10am

Lighting

All natural lighting here

Equipment

This was shot with my Canon 5d mk3, my 70-200 f/2.8 with a 2x converter attached. We were shooting off the side of the jeep with sand bags under our cameras. I'd never used a sandbag like this before and I did find from time to time that my focus ring and or my zoom ring were moving whilst I moved around on the sand bag. This was quite frustrating.

Inspiration

No inspiration needed. Mother nature provided the scene, i was just waiting to try to capture interesting moments!

Editing

Minimal processing was done.

In my camera bag

Canon 5d mk4 body, 16-35 L III lens, Nisi filters and typically one other lens. 85mm, 70-200 or fisheye.

Feedback

use a fast shutter speed and focus on the eyes! I knew this before I went and before I shot in Africa, but in this scene here, i was worried about higher ISO and noise. I felt that this was a magical scene and I really wanted to capture it well, so I dropped my ISO and thought I could shoot (on a bean bag) at 400mm at around 1/200th of a second. It turns out I can't! I have LOTS of shots that are not sharp. The ISO is nice and low...but the shot is no good. My advice, bump that ISO up, have a fast shutter speed (the jeep moves, people move, you move, 400m is long) so that you don't miss the shot. 1/1000th and more is what i tried to shoot with AFTER i saw the results on the computer.

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Family meal time

A mother Leopard and young one feast on an Impala after they dragged it up a tree!

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