Asiatic Lion | Gir

[Bibhav Behera]

This particular male resides in the Daveliya enclosure in Sasan Gir in Gujarat, India. which is sanctuary to Lions, Blackbucks, Nilgai, Spotted Deer and Leopards to name a few.


EXIF and Camera Details:
Canon EOS 450D, 300mm f/4L IS USM
SS 1/200
f/8
ISO 200

Full frame image. Comments and Critiques welcome.

PS: The retention of the strip of tree on the left was intentional. Do let me know your thoughts on it.

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[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Bibhav and welcome.

Good choice to keep the tree in, think if you were to add a bit more in Curves to give the image a bit more 'pop' the image would have a bit more 'guts' to it. Plus in Levels bringing in the LH slider to say 10 & the RH slider to say 250. You could consider also loosing a little off the RHS, but personal choice. Also with a shot like this I might have gone to say ISO400 just to give a bit more SS.

Look forward to more soon.

TFS
Steve

[Pieter de Waal]

Nice to see an image of an Asiatic Lion Bibhav. Good pointers from Steve above. TFS.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Always good to see images of these lions! Good points raised above. My eye gets thrown a bit with the upright tree and the "sloping" lion...was it lying on a downward slope? :Whoa!:

[Harshad Barve]

they are my wishlist this year bhai , nice relaxed male here
TFS