A sardonic smile

[Callie de Wet]

One of two brothers from the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park at Marie se Gat.
Cropped off a little bit on his left. FF balance, no canvas added. It is the car tracks on the sand in the last afternoon shade that creates the whorls in the BG. NR on BG, sharpened body and them eyes, mouth area
D300; 200-400 f/4; F/8; 1/640; -0,3 EV; 18h11 PM

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely regal pose Callie, and I like the raised piece of mane between his ears. I would have moved him to the left a bit more.

[Callie de Wet]

Lovely regal pose Callie, and I like the raised piece of mane between his ears. I would have moved him to the left a bit more.
Thanks Stu. I actually considered the cropping as you suggested, but then it would be a nearly square crop which somehow did not feel right. He was walking towards us, then flopped down and then went flat cat, all in less than a minute. I could not get the focus icon moved fast enough to the left to get more space on the right. Guess one can add some canvas to the right of his back foot?

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Callie Love that top hair sticking up, what a character !!! Agree with the placement and would brighten the image overall !! ... just a touch of curves will do it !!!

[Callie de Wet]

Hi Callie Love that top hair sticking up, what a character !!! Agree with the placement and would brighten the image overall !! ... just a touch of curves will do it !!!
Here is a re-post, thanks, Alfred.

[Austin Thomas]

Hi Callie,

The raised hair looks great on this one. Agree that it needs lightening a little and ideally he needs moving to the left a bit.

Great pose.

tfs

Austin

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Callie,
Raised hair is great and the re-post looks better on the colors too. If you are OK with such things blurring/softening some of the tire tracks will help strengthen this even further.

[Morkel Erasmus]

hi Callie!

stunning specimen. the repost works better but I still feel the lion is too smooth? I'd like to see some sharper finite detail. agree with Roman on the tyre tread...

:)

[Harshad Barve]

talk about the Hair-do :D
Repost looks better to me and Lion can take slightly more sharpening
TFS

[Steve Canuel]

Love the hairdo and the look on his face. All good suggestions given above. I'd remove the grass on his forehead but only because I can't stop staring at it!

[Todd Frost]

Good looking lion with quite the "doo". Agree with Morkel about the lack of fine detail. Did you run nr on the lion also? Repost does look better. TFS
Todd

[subramanya_ck]

Terrific stuff. Repost is mindblowing

[Ken Watkins]

I thought that "Mohican" Lions were generally only seen in Botswana, but at least this one has a full black mane. I think as little sharpening would help a lot.