In the private game reserves in Africa, rules established for the national parks don't apply. For example, in most of the national parks, you can't go on night drives because rangers assume anyone roaming around at night are poachers. In the private reserves, though, night drives are common and they provide photographers with very different experiences and photographic opportunities. There are usually two guides in the vehicle -- one is a driver while the other, the spotter, uses his flashlight to locate animals so we can see and photograph them. We try not to shine the bright light into the eyes of herbivores, because the temporary blindness makes them vulnerable to predators. This leopard in a park in South Africa was in a crouched posture, and that's what drew me to take the shot. The lighting and the black background are so different than pictures taken during daylight hours. I used a 400mm focal length zoom, and the settings were 1/400, f/5.6, and 3200 ISO. Because the spotlight was incandescent, I switched from daylight WB to tungsten WB.
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