Life in Ngorongoro

[Roman Kurywczak]

This was taken on my Tanzania tour while we were watching the birth of a few Gnu. Quickly had to whip out my split ND's....2 stacked but offset to get the sky and FG even close! I have a few with a larger herd but felt this bold ray fit the scene somewhat better.
Canon 1D Mark lll with the 100-400mm lens at 120mm at f11 and 1/400 sec and ISO 800 resting on bean bag. 2&3 stop soft edge Singh Ray grad ND's used hand held.
Will be posting 2 of next years tours shortly....PM me if interested.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I like this. I had never come across the use of a ND filters on a 100-400. This works well here. It was nice that you reacted immediately. I wish the gnu were slightly more to the right, just at the spot the ray hits below. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Robert Amoruso]

Of course my comment changes the feel of the image, but I would try an s-curve on this to get more drama out of the clouds to go with the higher contrast of the shaft of light.

[Kobus Tollig]

Nice one here well done. Just some halos on the mountain tops

[Bob Miller]

Hey Roman...very nice image with great feeling.
I do agree that some more contrast in those awesome clouds would be worth trying

[Ed Cordes]

Cool effect. You must have been soaked after the rain hit. Wierd halo on the mountain tops.

[Morkel Erasmus]

awesome sight and great instant action by the grad-master :)
love that beam, agree it could use some more drama through contrast and I also see the halos top left...