Forgot all about these so here is a slightly different image from the throttling series.
A young Leopardess crushes the head of an even younger Warthog, taking in appalling light the sun was setting behind the tree!
Kwando concession, Northern Botswana, 2nd January 2012
EOS 1D MkIV
500mm F4 hand-held
F4, ISO 1600, 1/160, EV-0.67
05-22-2012, 07:52 AM
Rachel Hollander
Ken - light wasn't on your side but you did well under the circumstances. Nice that the pov seems to be straight on even though the leopard was up a tree.
TFS,
Rachel
05-22-2012, 02:47 PM
Vivaldo Damilano
Ken light wasn't great but what a sighting. Would add more saturation or even try B&W on this image.
05-22-2012, 02:50 PM
Vivaldo Damilano
Ken light wasn't great but what a sighting. Would add more saturation or even try B&W on this image. IMO flash could have help alot, would have helped this image pop alot more.
05-22-2012, 03:02 PM
Andreas Liedmann
What a shot ,excellent even under the poor lighting situation .I tried quickly to do some stuff on the colors ,but i was struggling to get something decent in short time.
Maybe tomorrow.
All the rest work well for me.
Cheers Andreas
05-22-2012, 04:19 PM
Mark Wiseman
Hi Ken,
A majic capture. Sometimes we have to seize the moment and you have done that. I would definitely do a black and white conversion of this image.
TFS,
Mark.
05-22-2012, 07:29 PM
Sid Garige
Ken,
Killer timing and fantastic action well captured. Good job in tough lighting conditions.
-Sid
05-22-2012, 09:02 PM
Harshad Barve
Excellent job in given lighting , mighty sighting and VWD
TFS
05-22-2012, 11:03 PM
Ken Watkins
Thanks everybody, I will try a B& W when I am fully awake:w3
I rarely use flash but do not mind a spotlight now and again, in this case spotlight would have made little difference, if we had been the other side of the tree and she turned to face us then this would have probably been a bit better, but you make the most of what you are given, it was great to watch though only my third ever Leopard kill.