Kruger Queen

[lee bothma]

Captured this beautiful female on a recent trip to the Kruger National Park, South Africa.

more images from the trip on www.leebothma.com

Canon 7d,400mm,1/125sec @ 6.3 ISO 640. fill flash -0.3ev

[Robert Amoruso]

Nice work Lee. Powerful gaze makes the image. I would shave off some of the bottom if it were mine. I am not a fan of too much OOF area in the FG.

Thanks for posting.

[Steve Kaluski]

Would echo Roberts observations/comments here Lee.

If you can, providing you have the content, I would be tempted to move the whole crop up, giving more above and less below. Something like half the depth between the bottom of the image and where it meets the foot on the RHS about 10mm.

TFS
Steve

[Rachel Hollander]

Nice head on look and pov. Interesting that the eyes are different sizes. I agree with Robert that a tad off the bottom would improve it.

TFS,
Rachel

[Todd Frost]

Nice image and stare by the lioness. I'll go against the grain here as everyone knows I'm a lover of oof fg, I might add just a bit up top and rhs (to keep proportion). Nicely seen and captured.
TFS
Todd

[Morkel Erasmus]

can only echo my fellow mods on this one regarding comp, Lee...super eye contact and you were lucky to get her lying on a big rock(?) in the lush green that is Kruger over December.

trust your trip was nice?

[Stephen Stephen]

Lee beautiful look on this lioness. I too may have removed more of the OOF foreground. That being said I wish that this was mine.

[lee bothma]

Thank you for the replies, did a quick edited removing a lot of the the wasted space, I also believe its a lot better now. thanks

Yeah Morkel, Trip was awesome.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Lee, I think this is more of a stronger composition now.

Would suggest next time in posting 800px high (max), means we can appreciate the image more. :)

Thanks
Steve

[Morkel Erasmus]

good to hear your trip was nice - left a comment on your blog too...

I agree, Steve...I try to post landscape orientations at 1000px wide and portrait orientations at 750-800px high - definitely makes it easier to enjoy! :)

[lee bothma]

Thanks Steve and Morkel:)
I normally post the right size, But never had the time for the edit so just took the one from my blog:) here is 800px:D

[Sid Garige]

love that final big repost Lee. Great pose and awesome look.