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Hi Mark - nice to see you posting again and the light certainly is wonderful. Nice low pov and the stare from the lion is great, so is the tongue out. Central placement works fine here. I'm wondering if this is a large crop or if you had to recover the brights a bit as some of the areas look a bit smooth (left side of lion's face and mane as we view it). Also there's no color profile embedded so you might want to repost.
TFS,
Rachel
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Hi Rachel,
Well spotted, it is a crop, but I removed a little off the bottom and top. I wanted the lion positioned centrally within the image due to the forward look of the lion. The flatness you refer too is probably due to the highlights slider and white slider in LR4 that I used as I pushed it a bit too much and also due to a luminosity mask adjustment I did to reduce the bright lights. I will do a repost when time allows and know with a few tweeks it can be improved. Thanks for your comment, it is much appreciated.
Best wishes,
Mark.
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Hey Mark,
I like the comp here with the centered face creating a nice focus point.
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Very nice male lion, very nice light! I agree with Rachel on the left side of his face but it's not blown out so could be adjusted. One thing which stands out to me, this lion is alerted by something. His eyes are round, his pupils small. What caused this disturbance? That's the question I find asking myself when I see this image.
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Thanks Rachel, Steve and Egil for your comments.
Egil, the people in the car behind me had young children in the car and it is my experience that these big cats can show a little more interest when young children are in vehicles. On the other hand it may have been the sound of the shutter that alarmed the lion, I am just not entirely sure. However, I like the way this lion is looking at the vehicle immediately behind mine, it is just a pity he was not looking directly at me.
Best wishes Mark.
I will post another image of this lion once I have done a bit more work to it.
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Egil, I think the pupils are small because the sun is in his face, so that's just normal. any movement could have made him look like that, because a cat always focuses on movement, or at least in my experience. I love this picture. love the light. Maybe darken the face just a tiny bit? especially on the left?
Best wishes, Carole
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Mark,
The RP was a much improved look over the original where I found the hues to be a bit too toasty.
If possible, a slightly higher vantage point would have been good to remove the out of focus rocks in the FG.
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I love this series Mark, magnificent example of Kalahari lion and light. 
RP is much better, I'd burn the highlights and midtones even more!
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You know I like this image Mark! Stunning light and awesome eye contact! RP the better one of the two!
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