The Lion Cub

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All

No TIGERS for some time now :bg3:

This Lion cub was waiting for mom. Photographed in Masai Mara with D3 , 200-400 at 400/F4 , 1/320 , ISO 800
All C & C are most welcome
Harshad

[Ken Watkins]

Harshad,

Interesting composition here, I know you have tried to keep the full length of the tail on this but believe it has resulted in too my eyes a slightly unbalanced feel, perhaps a little more on the RHS may help or even reduce the LHS as the then missing tail is easily explained by the grass

[Rachel Hollander]

Harshad - cute cub and nice clear view. I find the darker sloping line in the bg to perhaps be adding to the unbalanced feel that Ken mentioned. How about going tighter and taking some from the top and left? I also think the yellows are a bit strong and would look at reducing them.

TFS,
Rachel

[Dumay de Boulle]

Lovely poae and nicely out in the open. I like the comp suggestions and not sure on the sharpening as it looks a little coarse. Love to come on one of your tours some day!

[Harshad Barve]

Here is RP but I still feel that OP is best :)) :))

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Harshad, firstly if you take the OP and apply say 1.6 CCW rotation that addresses both the BG and the subject seems to sit better, sorry no pun intended. :w3

Providing there is enough image and you re-crop to the same format, then I feel this looks a little lost in frame. I full realise why you have gone with the choice of crop and the RP highlights that, the cropped tail. So perhaps this might be an alternative option, WDYT?

BTW - Not sure if you have changed anything in you workflow, but compared to some of the more recent postings, this has a lot more sharpness and clarity in the subject??? Looks good.

TFS
Steve

[Brendon Cremer]

Great image Harshad, lovely detail and personally i like the OP, the colours dont look off to me and i like the space around it too, although a little more space to the right may strengthen the comp.

[Ken Watkins]

Here is RP but I still feel that OP is best :)) :))

Me too, in Steve's re-post the colours do not look right at all

[Steve Kaluski]

Steve's re-post the colours do not look right at all

To steps, CCW rotation, cropped. No colour change as the file was left as original profile and then saved as an sRGB file for web presentation.

[Ken Watkins]

Steve,

The colours have certainly changed on my monitor:S3:

[Dumay de Boulle]

I cant see the color change between Steves and OP but I have to agree the OP comp works best!

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Harshad
like the repost of you and would add even more to RHS.and yes the colors have changed in steve`s RP.

Cheers Andreas

[Rachel Hollander]

Strange, I'm not seeing any color change/shift either.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Lovely image of this cub, Harshadbhai!
Like Steve's repost ito levelling, like the OP ito framing...colours look the same browsing on Chrome

[thijs broekkamp]

Great shot, great soft sharpness, nice!