Friday
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Photo of the Day - Cheetah and Her Cubs
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 09:19AM
Cheetah and Her Cubs
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. March 2012
Pentax 645D + 400mm f/5.6, 1/100 @ f/5.6, ISO 800
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 09:19AM
Reader Comments (7)
Beautiful. Simple and powerful at the same time. I've never shot with the Pentax. Would love to see this same photo with the new Nikon D800 :)
I agree. My suspicion is the D800 will do pretty darned well when compared.
Excellent image. I want a cheetah cub!
It's all about the light. Light is really nice as well as color. Even though you have gained pleasing separation from the background with your subject, you still managed to make the environment an important part of the photo.
Great shot - the symmetry of the cub looking the same direction as the female and in the same posture makes the shot.
Spectacular shot, Andy!
Andy - The reason I really really like this image, besides being in love with cheetahs, is that the lighting is really great. Not that you can help it too much short of shooting with a split-neutral density filter (never on safari game drives) or altering things in post-processing, but in so many images, the background sky is usually so much brighter than the foreground and animals, and I find that to be distracting and it takes my eye away from the animals. With the darker sky in this image, it really allows my brain to focus much more on the relatively brighter cheetah adult. Finally, the light on the animals is just so nice.