Hi folks ,
one of my rare close Cheetah sightings ..... seen many on all of my trips but basically all far or hidden.
But also in this case ( taken in Etosha ) less than ideal and on the move , watched this female with its single cup for over an hour far on the plains in Etosha , finally the female decided to come my way .....
I was waiting for her , but could not see her due to landscape undulations and the very high dry grass , so i moved slowly up and down the track ......
All of a sudden the emerged from the high grass with her cub behind her , the cub passed my car in my back, she decided to walk slowly parallel to me ..... still too hectic for me to sort the situation out in terms of kit and exposure .
As the cam was set to expose here in the light high grass , so i got her in front of me ...... backlit , a exposure disaster followed .
Resulting in a very dark frame ........
So i spend a lot of time for a half way decent result to overcome the really dark shadows and almost solid blacks.Tried even ACR with SO and exposure blending ....... the result wasn´t to bad to be honest , but as i am a pure Canonian and prefer to work with DPP i was working hard to get this , a lot of exposure blending involved and loads of layers .
Canon EOS 1D MK IV
EF 500 IS L
Window bracket
F 8 / Iso 500 : 1/800 sec
Processed with DPP 4 and PS CC , cropped for comp
Thanks for watching and commenting to my previous thread
Cheers Andreas







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.Tried even ACR with SO and exposure blending ....... the result wasn´t to bad to be honest , but as i am a pure Canonian and prefer to work with DPP i was working hard to get this , a lot of exposure blending involved and loads of layers .
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in any " raw converter , as far as i know .
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, a typical operator error 
