Originally Posted by
Isaac Grant
This is really pretty. Love the dark tones and the feel of this. I absolutely would not lower the contrast in any way on this shot. In dark and dim light things look dark and dim. You have deep blacks and little areas of color. Lowering contrast would artificially flatten the shot. Seems to be a common thing on the wildlife forum to have very flat and low contrast type shots but that is not really how I see the world. The only leopard I saw was on a night drive in South Africa. We saw at the very edge of the head lights. About 90 degrees from the light so the cat was really dim. Eventually the driver put a spot light on it but I remember that scene very well. Deep dark grass and the beautiful warm tones of the cat. Lowering the contrast would not be what this looked like. Oh and beautiful work with the ISO. Said it on another post, but you wildlife guys are put the avian folks on notice with your high ISO work!