The followup shoot to my career-breaking shoot, Elephant Boy, was none other than...Cheetah Girl.
It was also shot in my hometown of Cape Town, and again for Dutch Magazine.
What made this shoot especially ground-breaking was that EVERYTHING was shot in camera--that means no Photoshop, no nothing! As you can see in the following video, cheetahs are freakin' fast.
We're talking 0-100 mph in 4 seconds fast. I only had four chances--FOUR--to capture the shot, as the cheetah is actually not made to run a lot--it hurts their feet and trainer only gave me a limited amount of shots.
The pressure was on. And I actually thought I missed the shot.
And true, the cheetah's head was out of frame, but it ended up being THE shot, because compositionally, it worked beautifully.
It was even more amazing than I had hoped for.
