Weasely sent you my way, huh? Cool. :) That's a very impressive photo, by the way! I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Yeah, Weasely was all like, "Vandrigar's this cool photographer I visited!", and then I looked at your FA page and saw the list of all the other things you do, and I went D: in despair.

Now that I'm on real internet (not GPRS) I'll have to look through your submissions properly. :)

Heh! Well.. I've messed around in a lot of media and areas, but never really got overly good at any of them. The attention span of a mustelid can be measured in seconds, on a good day. ;) So I tend to jump from thing to thing.

Love this <3

I know sod all about photography... Is this how it came out, or did you mess it around with photoshop or similar? :)

I love the focus on the front cheetah and blurriness! (See, I know nothing and my comments suck too) ;)

... and ZOMG Van! Didn't know you were here O_o I must PM to sort something that's been bugging me for AGES :)

Thanks, Torque! (Can I call you that?)

This is (mostly) how it came out, yes. The only changes made were a slight crop to re-frame the photo, and changing of the brightness to correct the exposure. Typical photo-editing for any photo. :)

The motion blur is from the very slow shutter speed (1/50th of a second), and the sharpness of the cheetah in the foreground is from using the flash to help "freeze" an instant of his motion. Prrprr!

*Blinks* ... Nah, actually most of that makes sense ;) Oh, and I answer to almost anything :D
Only kind of camera I've had in YEARS is part of a mobile phone, but I used to have a -real- camera with changable lenses and adjustable shutter speed. Just never been good at capturing moments, so gave up trying :)
Was having a chat with ShadowCheetah recently and he reminded me how a single moment can be a thing of awesome beauty... I'll have to nudge him this way, as I think you grabbed one :)

*chuckles* I've decided that the trick to capturing moments is to take a lot of time to wait for them to present themselves.

A few of my friends have a lot more patience for landscape photography 'n so get far better 'moments' than I do. But sitting outside a cheetah enclosure for a few hours? No problem.

And yes, do! More cheetahs ftw!

The stationary spots enhance the motion blur of this so nicely. You can see the variation in speed all throughout the animal, VERY active pic! My 'sensai' told me that if you can, tell a story with your picture. This has an element of time in it.

Thanks, Mister Atomicat!

You're definitely right about 'telling a story' being important - though I have to admit, it's something I too-often forget to try to do.

Moar practice required. *nod* :)

ooh, awesome motion shot! *clasps paws together* Could I pleeeease use this as a reference for a drawing?!