Since we recently have had several nice lion portraits, I thought I would try to continue that trend. This is a "old" one from my trip 2011 to Masai Mara, Kenya. I have not been away so many times as some of you other, and try to do my best of those I have on my hard disk. I "shot" this lion in the last sunlight that evening. I´m quite fond of how his big mane works as a sun collector. This time I processed him separately and background separately. Tried different color balance on the bg. I think this is difficult to judge what is best, but this is my choice so far. If I could go back, I would trade some ss for more DOF.
Nikon D3
Nikon 600 mm
f4.0 | 1/1600 SS | ISO-800
Selectively processed the object, background and the usual pp - all in LR5







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