Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The cheetahs kept running towards Alastair's vehicle throughout the trip! (-: That said, these are super shots and as good as any I have seen. When a cheetah explodes towards a herd, the action is so fast that one has to chose the direction one follows, rather like a goalkeeper defending a penalty spot kick in soccer - in this case I chose the wrong way (I was in another vehicle, parallel to the action), so my photographs are full of running gazelles. By the time you realize the mistake, it is generally too late - video is generally easier, because one is not quite so tight on the animal. Unless the cheetah and prey are coming towards you, photographing this action sequence is very difficult Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:37 AM, afirkin <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote: > My buffer ran out on the Nikon just as the cheetah was about to leap on the > Gazelle. If it had I would have had to commit Hari Kiri. :-) Here is the > moment > before the shutter stopped firing: > > http://tinyurl.com/qbut8wk > > Any camera can run out of buffer now matter what you pay or where you are. > You > need to know your camera, and I did not!!!!! As Jay suggested I should > have been > shooting jpegs, but things happen very fast. VVV fast :-) I gambled on the > action occuring earlier as the cat was so close to its prey. As it was, it > changed its mind, and ran right next to our car. If it had 'hit' the prey > I was > in perfect postion for a 'killer' shot, but the hesitation in taking out > the > prey proved critical an she missed. I would have as well ;-) Here the > mother > puts on the brakes as she 'admits' defeat. > > http://tinyurl.com/p5kzjod > > Moral of the story is to know your equipment and work within its > limitations: > every camera has them ;-) > > Alastair