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Hi Morkel - nice job on the panning to achieve sharpness despite the movement. Love that all 4 hooves are in the air. Dramatic sunrise colors too. Seems like the blues and magentas on the gemsbok are a bit stong but let's see what others think.
TFS,
Rachel
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Perfect balance in between beautiful sky and interesting subject Morkel. Especially like the running pose.
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Great pose from the Gemsbok, just wish maybe his tail was a bit more out' :). Did you process the same raw file twice and blend, or is it two different files? Just curious! Great stuff Morkel!
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Thanks guys. Steve - nice repost! Did you simply adjust the white point or pull the levels slider back from the edge?

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Did you process the same raw file twice and blend, or is it two different files? Just curious! Great stuff Morkel!
Thanks Laura - same RAW file twice...pulled back exposure by 2 stops for the sky and blended that back into the original exposure.
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What a great capture of a cantering oryx, really like the pose and composition and the reposts (both of them) give the image a lift.
One thing which bothers me, but obviously not others, is the warm haloing along the horizon. Perhaps it is emphasised due to the work done on the sky but I'd tone it down (my landscape hat talking here).
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Well done, Morkel, on what looks to be not an easy capture. RP by Steve looks best.
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Steve has a way of pulling out the best of color tones. Given that this is one of my favorite animals in the world I love it as well but admit I'm biased. Just wondering why did you do a 2nd exposure with the same file and blend. Why not use one of the many ND filters post processing like in lightroom. Do you feel it's that much better?
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I hear you on the late night editing
. Cool action image Morkel and nice processing work. Colour cast issue has been taken care of I see in the repost suggestions.
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Hi Morkel, just adjusting the whites nothing more, it just lifted things I felt, although rather hesitant, as I'm away and really don't like working or commenting too much on colour unless it is evident or feel it is a definite move in the right direction. 
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.

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Hi Morkel,
nice powerful looking motion in this one.
Love the light situation with the beautiful sky and the composition works nicely with room to run into.
Steve`s repost takes it up a notch but think you can go a bit further ,tried it myself.
The only thing that is peeking my eye is the halo along the edge sky/dunes, think this comes from blending the two exposures together. (blurring)
Nice one Morkel
Cheers Andreas
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Above, re-post/work may be realistic, but, looks some flat to me. Plus the sky is too bright compared to subject, so maybe darken it some??
This my rework, based on Steve's repost, added contrast in PS levels, tried to keep original sky by masking, warmed it overall.
Probably would try burning-in, darken, sky even more.
(Yeah baby, now we're talking some pop!!!)
Tom
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Thanks for the feedback, folks.
Hilary/Andreas - that 'halo' is something I've seen in other similar images as well where the sun was behind the ridge and shooting into the light with a telephoto which renders that area OOF...don't think it has to do with blending. The effect of blending might be the darker edge to the dune though.
Tom - I actually like how your repost pops, nice job! I just don't feel it reflects the ambient light conditions accurately, though I will probably be willing to push it to about halfway between Steve's RP and your RP
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Morkel was talking about the "halo" more on the LHS , not that much about the sun halo.As you can see the tree on the LHS darker dune parts is surrounded by that, and not defined.To me it still looks like a blurring side effect on contrast edges.I would try to use a bigger blur, if you have blurred the blending.
Cheers Andreas