I would like to share this image with you, in case you wondered what the female of my lion ( posted the other day) looks like. They are -in my opinion- a formidable pair! While he is about five years of age, she looks a little older and surely does most of the hunting. I hope I can show you the two subadults soon (that is, if you can tolerate more lion images from me
).
This was shot at F6.3, ISO 1000, 1/3200s. Nikon D3S and Nikon 500 F4. Did LR adjustments and sharpening and then CS6 where I removed some of the yellows, magentas and reds but tried to retain the remains of blood on the face. Some more sharpening before posting as usual.
Many thanks for taking the time to view,
Wishing you all a happy day tomorrow,







. I hope I can show you the two subadults soon (that is, if you can tolerate more lion images from me
).
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I wanted to post the original to give you an idea of what the image looked like and then forgot, month end at work can be quite draining and the little energy I had left was just enough to browse through BPN wildlife images and enjoy the latest posts...Will look into your advice regarding tighter cropping as well as straightening, although I do welcome Edward's observation about the lioness "cocking her head"-thank you Edward! I specifically chose this image because of that "tilt of the head", I like the way lions walk, right limb forward, head moves to the left...and the other way around. Your comments about over-sharpening are spot-on. I think I sharpened both the RAW and the Jpeg, instead of Jpeg only. Ouch

