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    Found this leopard after 2 days searching in Etosha.

    MK III
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    f/6.3 1/2500 -0.33
    Lens 70-200 II & 1.4 ~ 255mm
    was at 6:05pm

    Clean up a few rocks, levels, contrast, sharpening with NIK.


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    Love the sneaky pose and the light on the leopard here Anette.
    I feel you could get a bit more sharpness/clarity out of the leopard, and I'd step back on the blacks a bit as they look choked up?
    Did you try running it through the other sharpening actions now?
    I would crop some off the top too, losing most of the dark brown upper left corner.
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    Anette, this capture would make an interesting pano if you crop it just below the rock at the left center of this photo.

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    Hi Anette - I like the slinky pose. Good suggestions above. In addition to Morkel's suggestions, I might burn the highlights on the leopard about 5% or so. I too would crop some from the top.

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    Hi all,

    thank you very much for your help and suggestions.

    Morkel I had to run the Action from you twice to get the image as it is now.
    First I had it cropped as you suggested lowered the crop and burned out the dark area in the left with clone stamp to about 40-50%. That worked quite well.
    In the overall I did not do much at the black areas of the leopard at all.

    When I was about to post it I have seen Ed & Rachel's comment, of course I gave it a try in Pano and like it that way much more. I had to take out the rock in the left, due to much disturbing / drawing attention to itself somehow. Well, my eyes have been pulled there to much. Burned the Highlights with 5% here and there.

    Thanks so much Morkel, Ed and Rachel

    Have a great eve, morning or afternoon

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    Hi Anette, with those techs you will have nailed it for sure. I agree with Morkel, the image does lack the clarity that I would have expected from the kit, ditto the blocking of the shadows. Perhaps take a look at Rachel's images with the same kit and I think you will see the areas you need to look at. If you are using ACR (PS/CS) then you can easily adjust areas that need to be addressed. Check for any updates to the Software too. The pano is better and I might look at selectively reducing some of the yellow too?

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