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    This Lioness killed a Blue Wildebees cow on her own the previous night. She went of to lie in close-by shade and to relief herself. Lions urinate where they lie but always walk a little distance
    to defecate. She was nervously watched by several hungry black-backed Jackals.

    Nikon D3S 600F4
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    ISO 640 (she was in shade,suddenly got up,no chance to lower ISO-D3S no noise)
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    Hi Andre- nice light on this one. I might have gone for a bit more dof since you certainly had the ss for it. At first, I didn't realize it was the kill in the bg until I read your description.

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    Hi Andre,

    very nice image. I thought the red "thing" on the LHS is a flower, than I saw the horn & body
    The light is great, details as well. I would sharpen a tad more just under her nose! My thought.

    Have a great evening

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    Hi Andre, you handled the harsh light well and not blowing the whites can be tricky. With Nikon having a slightly higher ISO/SS isn't an issue and sometime difficult in the heat of the moment to always remember to check things, especially in moments like this. As presented it's OK, but the image sadly doesn't really reflect your encounter, however... If you had flipped the camera to landscape format, then if the 600 wasn't too restricting, then you might have had the whole kill and the lioness to the right, this to me would have been "The Shot". What I have over the years said is, get the shot you want, then if time allows, 'change the format, zoom out, zoom in, etc', get as many variations as you can, because what you think is the shot may not be true when you get back, so try to cover all your basis.

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    Hi Steve
    Attached is the original image before cropping- what would your crop be?
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    Hi Andre - I'm not Steve but I'll give the crop a shot. I think it would have been preferable in the field to point the camera to the left a bit to get the whole kill in and to perhaps have the tree trunk, if it extended past the kill, as your left edge. If it did not, then a little space to the left of the kill would have been good. I also would have preferred a little more room for her to walk into but it's not a deal breaker. Here's a crop from your post of the ff but it is still not ideal. Please note, I did not do anything except crop, resize and assign an sRGB profile.

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    A tough one based on this Andre, certainly I would have had more FG and moved the format more to the left to have included the whole carcass. Any reason why you didn't, focus point limitation, distracting objects, etc...? Not ideal, but perhaps something like this? Have added a hint more FG and pruned one small branch on the tree.
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    Thank you very much Steve and Rachel!She was feeding on the carcass, composed the image and was waiting her to yawn, etc. Camera on camrack with gimble. We spent some time with her feeding, saw movement and looked up-she was up coming towards us. No time to move focus point to recompose;again; if only I would learn to keep my head glued to viewfinder!
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