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Gallery: WildlifePosted July 18, 2012678 views7 comments

Two young Cheetahs of the same family of six as in my previous post, only this was a day earlier. They gave us a wonderful few minutes in the early morning light.

The tail of the right Cheetah touched the edge of the frame unfortunately, so I added a sliver of canvas on the right and a few hairs on the tail tip.

Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana
Camera Model Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
Shutter Speed 1/1000 Sec.
Aperture Value f/5
ISO Speed 400
Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM
Crop >100% of original.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on July 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM

Lovely backlighting, good detail. In some ways, it seems odd that a pair of fast movers could be frozen in mid-stride, but an excellent and sound image, nonetheless.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on July 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM

don't you just hate it when they cajole too close for a fixed lens? nice retouch, though...
I like the rim-light here Vincent...

Registered on March 22, 2011, 385 Posts, 2068 Comments

Comment posted by Simon Bennett on July 18, 2012 at 6:39 PM

Nice interaction and frame extension.

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on July 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM

Great light n beautiful image !!!
The flying dust adds to the image.
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by William Bickle on July 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM

Hello Vincent

Great Interaction Image! Rim/Backlighting really makes this Image.

Although Very Tight ... Still a Sweet Image!

TFS

Bill

Registered on June 13, 2011, 183 Posts, 1702 Comments

Comment posted by James Campbell on July 24, 2012 at 2:56 AM

Hey Vincent, I love the interaction here and the waythat the light catches the tummy hair is great! Nice one

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 24, 2012 at 2:53 PM

Very cool backlit shot Vincent. I like the playfulness you managed to show with these animals. BTW, good job on the extra canvas.

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