Night Walk

[Stu Bowie]

Another out my archives from the Sabi Private game reserve, taken in 2008. We waited for this big guy, as he had to come to water after his kill. True to nature, he walked alongside us, and we followed him down to the dam. The light is a combination of spot light from the vehicle, and external flash from the camera.

Canon 20D
24-105 @ 58mm
1/250
F/4.0
ISO 400

Manual mode
Ext flash used.

[Alfred Forns]

It pays to know behavior and got you a neat shot !!! Lighting is very good and even, well done !! That sure is a good looking cat !!!

[Marc Mol]

Nice one Stuart, the SSGR is sure hard to beat for concentration of habituated Leopards, heck I was that keen on the area, I thought it a good idea for my wife and I to get married there at the same time.:D
Did you happen to get one of him front on? Good use of spot & flash light. Very nice male as well.
TFS

[Kiran Khanzode]

That is one huge, well fed leopard ! That's Mike Tyson's neck ! I would have tried a lower angle, if at all possible.

[Todd Frost]

Well done, good use of the lighting available to you. Nice looking cat. TFS
Todd

[Harshad Barve]

thats a huge leopard , excellent image for all reasons said above
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

great shot mate! Kiran - if I'm not mistaken this leopard is actually called "Tyson"!! :D

[Vida van der Walt]

Another great image Stu. Ditto even light and very well captured.:)

[peter delaney]

Hi Stuart

I hope you do not mind me being honest, but this image does not work for me.
Night time photography using flash and spotlight are very difficult tools to create a moody/interesting image. You have handle all the techs correctly but the side angle looking down detracts from the image for me.
I have also photograph this leopard so I know that it can very difficult to get in to the right position etc. and one has to take what you can get.

sorry if you think i am being to frank ..but I would rather give / receive constructive critique than platitudes.

peter

[Betsie Storm]

Very well captured, Stu, have to add my respects for the use of lighting.

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the great feedback.

Peter, no offence whatsoever for your honest comment/crit.

[Callie de Wet]

Hi Stu, any leopard, any time, is a bonus. Shooting from the Landie is not easy, and the POV is not always nice. If you run Blending mode Modify and fade a bit, you get a better exposure, methinks, but then I like darker rather than lighter images.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Callie, thanks for your feedback. Your repost does look better, although I would probably go with an inbetween of yours and mine.