Ms. Broken Tooth: A Lioness at Masai Mara

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Camera	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure	(1/400)
Aperture	f/5.0
Focal Length	500 mm
ISO Speed	160
Exposure Bias	0 EV

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Sanjeev - your pp is really coming along. Looks like the whites to the right of the mouth are blown but otherwise this has nice detail. If it were mine, I would lighten the eyes slightly and also apply another round of sharpening to the head. Nice one.

TFS,
Rachel

[Diane Miller]

Wow -- I feel like I'm right there! God suggestion on the eyes. I'd take a little off the left and add a very slight amount to the right, if you have it. It's a bit too half-and-half for me, but that's a personal opinion thing. It's a gorgeous image!

[edwardselfe]

Very nice study. I would consider losing the grass on the rhs and apply more sharpening. Love the way both her ears are forward - not always a given when cats have a camera pointed at them.
Ed

[Markus Jais]

Wonderful portrait. I like the open mouth. Great composition.

Markus

[Gregor Bergquist]

I agree with above comment. Very nice one. Color of BG works very good with the lion.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Sanjeev ,
your back on the track, PP wise.
Really lovely processed this good looking portrait.

Just watch the red channel almost more or less blown in the highlights.One way would be copy the green channel into the red one in luminosity mode , so you have no color shifts.and there other options as well.
Agree with Rachel about lightening the eyes slightly and would like to add a bit more tonal contrast via green channel in soft light blend mode , but use selectively.
Square would be an option , too, even if i prefer the 3by2 ratio.

TFS Andreas

[hennieloots]

Hi Sanjeev - beautiful image. I like the comp, pose and the open mouth adds. I agree with removing the grass as mentioned. i like the colors and background very much.
Regards
Hennie

[Loi Nguyen]

Sanjeev, nice portrait. You had good suggestion above. I'd suggest to go vertical with this one. Loi

[Morkel Erasmus]

I echo Rachel's comments about your PP coming along very nicely.
Ditto the whites, I would tone overall brightness/exposure down by about a 1/3 stop to bring more depth to the finer details too.

[BenBotha]

I agree with some of the comments,IMO 2 slight problems-the whites washed out on side of face and the eyes (R side) and surrounds need to be lighter. Sharpness is fine.

Ben