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Loved this. One thing I felt is that the image is a bit too warm.
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Hi Rachel,
Many thanks for the warm welcome & the suggestions you have given.In fact i should honestly admit that the picture you have posted after PP, looks exactly the way i was looking at the cheetah & the cubs with my naked eyes.This has really pushed me back to Mara on that beautiful first sighting of cheetah.
I would definitely go back to all the points you have mentioned in PP and make myself more literate in PP.
Thanks once again for C & C...
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A beautiful first image!! What a great find!
A color cast, or a color temp that isn't the best, is one of the hardest things to learn to see. And it depends on a good monitor, properly calibrated.
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Very nice start for you here!!!!
Agree with Diane M. and that for photo editing a good monitor is the most important piece of the PP system. These two articles by our esteemed member Roger Clark will explain a lot of this.
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/...tor/index.html
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/...tor/index.html
And have a look around Roger's site anyway, wealth of photographic info there.
Tom
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Hi Eash, and another warm welcome.
Rachel has covered a lot of the main points in relation to ensuring your image is correctly set for presentation on the web and the useful pointers you can find here on this site. I would suggest you take some time just to browse the Forum, as you will find a lot of interesting info to help aid your growth in photography and playing a part in contributing in other threads will not just bolster you knowledge, but also help the community spirt we have.
Regarding the image, it's a cracking first image. The use of the old dead tree as a lookout point with the cubs at her feet is very appealing. The body pose and angle all work nicely. Certainly more space at the foot is required, it's all too tight. Looking at the EXIF data, f/11 is a little high, I think you could have dropped to around f/8, this would have increased your shutter speed, no problem with that as it's good to keep it reasonably high, but you could, if you wanted then dropped your ISO from 160 to 100.
Looking at the image more closely there is a lot you can get out of it and Rachel has done a good job, your first port of call is the WB (White Balance), get this right, then you can adjust accordingly the other sliders etc to get the exposure looking good too. These two are key, the rest are minor corrections that you will come to learn in time and can build on. The main aim is to getting it right in camera, do that and you will save yourself a lot of time and dissapointment. Examining image, it has everything there, you just need to get the first steps right. Posting an image that has an RGB profile will push the warm a tad more, but even so, the image is just too Saturated overall, I just changed the WB and bingo it looks so much better.
Look forward to more.
TFS
Steve
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Hi Eash,
another welcome to the forum from here in Germany.
Good place to post your images and get good and honest critiques, hope you will learn from all of us, and we all from you and your thoughts about our images that we post here.
Good image with very nice subject as your opener.
Agree with the technical comments made by the others.
like to see more of your stuff
Cheers Andreas
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Hi folks,
I am overwhelmed by all of your welcome note & encouragement.I sincerely thank all of you for all your time to dissect my image in minute details, examine exhaustingly & give a honest technically strong response. I also want to thank my friend Dr Prasanna AV for referring to this highly interactive photo enthusiastic group.
Thanks once again for your time.

Dr Eash.
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With Rachel giving such thorough critiques these days, it really makes me think Steve and I can go on an extended vacation.
My thoughts entirely Morkel, just getting the flight now, see you at Mana Pools Saturday morning.
Over to you Rachel and don't forget to switch the lights off.
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Originally Posted by
Steve Kaluski
My thoughts entirely Morkel, just getting the flight now, see you at Mana Pools Saturday morning.

Over to you Rachel and don't forget to switch the lights off.
Steve, remember your hiking boots and .308 rifle for warning shots. Gonna walk up to some lions
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What? I'm not invited? If you both are away who's going to comment on my images?
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Hi Eash and welcome. I really like the image and agree with Rachel on her repost. You have a great attitude right off the bat about being open to suggestions as I feel you can only benefit as I feel I have from the help here at BPN. Looking forward to more
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Morkel Erasmus
I'll instruct my wife to log on and type some sort of pre-conceived general praise with a suggestion like "
perhaps adjust levels slightly". That should do the trick?

I think we are hijacking the Doc's thread now...

A touch of humor is always welcome folks..... like the way we keep our selves out of stress on long drawn surgeries !!!!!
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