Leopard

[Chris van Rooyen]

I captured this image of a female leopard earlier this year in Sabi Sands. She was stalking some impala but failed to make the kill.

Camera Model: NIKON D3S
Date/Time: 26 May 2011; 08h19
Shutter speed: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure mode: Manual
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 560
Lens: 200 to 400mm
Focal length: 400mm

[Rudi van den Heever]

Gorgeous light Chris and like the habitat that you included! Comp works for me!:S3:

[peter delaney]

Welcome back Mr van Rooyen......:S3::S3:

sweet light, sweet portrait..

hope to see some more from you soon...

[Arthur Morris]

Yes, great to see you hear. I like the crop and the image design and wish only that the animal were looking a bit more towards us.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Good to see you posting here again Chris...gorgeous light and I like the pose. Not too sure about the crop personally - how about going in a tad tighter from left and bottom, still keeping the pano (almost 6x17??) feel? :e3

[Rachel Hollander]

Nice light. I like the comp, there's a feeling of simple yet elegant feel to it.

TFS,
Rachel

[Steve Canuel]

Light is very nice as others have noted. I like how she's emerging from the darker "path" in the grass.

[Ofer Levy]

Nice shot. I don't see any problem with the fact the animal is not looking at us as it is looking at the impala...:w3
I don't feel there is a need for such a long pano - would crop some off the right.
Some selective brightening on the face would be great IMO. Here is a quick repost with what I have in mind.

[Ishmeet Sahni]

A Lovely image......really like the Rim lighting effect.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Hi Ofer, yes I must say I like the crop:S3:

[Charles Glatzer]

Chris,

Wonderful image cropped both ways. The backlight puts this over the top, adding greatly to the dimensional quality of the image.
I think the head position is fine as taken.

Best,

Chas