National Geographic photographers can find themselves in unusual, extreme and potentially dangerous situations, trying to capture the 'never before seen' images the magazine is famous for. However, contributing photographer Paul Nicklen's story of his close encounter with a huge Leopard Seal (one of the top predators in the Antarctic), shows there's still opportunity for surprises in the job.
@ 31 sec and onward there shows another guy filming the story. what im worry about is the narrator tells some horrific stories WITHOUT any shots from the person filming. though i cant say it's an add-on fake story but proofs of his further sayings should be accompanied by video or photo in journalistic style. :(
Awesomestory! Fascinating instinct behavior, great images.
(Just a footnote: Being a musician myself, I HATE it when producers abuse music to pump drama into their documentary material, up to a level where A) the music gets in the way of the voice-over, and B) the music consists of 'kitsch' material (in this case a kind of jungle blurb never ever to be heard in the arctic zone). [/rant off] )
sometimes you gotta just go wit da flo bro, of course there is credence to your points, but just sit back and relax and enjoy the high points strikes the prevalent note here..
That is fascinating! I think I would've taken a bite out of the penguin, however, just to make the leopard seal happy. Better that than to have her angry and disgusted at you for refusing the free meal. :)
Many people don't give animals enough credit for their intelligence, and the fact that certain species can have individual personalities almost in the same way we do. I'm sure there are "a-hole" Leopard Seals, too.... this one just happened to be a "softy". Good for the diver and those of us who get to see the pics... not so good for the Penguins, as apparently even softy Seals like to eat them.
never heard of Leopard seals attacking humans so not sure there was much danger but great photos. Wild Orcas wont attack humans either but doubt they would start trying to feed you whale meat.
The seal is pretty stupid but not that stupid. What would you do if you had plenty of soft fluffy tasty little penguins everywhere ( so many you could give'em away to divers ! ) on one side and this diver with all sorts of rubber sheets and tubes and glass and metal on the other side? It is an easy option.
I wonder what the caring sharing animal would have done if there were no penguins about and if Nicklen was naked like the poor penguins.
Because Nicklen knows that sea leopards do not kill humans for fun. Nearly never.
This comment reminds me each time I take a picture that attract good comments around me, I can hear "you have a good camera" or "what's the brand of your camera ?" or every variation possible on the same thema.
in this sort of situation, does a photog shoot in M because it's second nature to always have the right exposure, or is the right thing to shoot in shutter priority mode ?
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