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    Taken inside the Ngorongoro Crater on a cloudy day. Full frame.

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    Boosted exposure by 0.5EV in LR5, lightened the face areas
    In CS6, levels, curves, UMS
    There is a small halo under the face of the gazelle on the right after resizing, which I don't know how to get rid off. It is not due to sharpening. It is not there for the full resolution.
    Appreciate your comments.

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    Loi

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    Hi Loi - nice look at these 2 sparring. You did well not introducing a lot of noise when raising the exp in pp. The whites look a little gray so I would try bringing them up a bit and give the overall image a bit more punch.

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    Loi, as Rachel mentioned the whites could do with a lift. They are a bit grey.
    RE; composition, I feel that you are a bit caught in the middle here. You don't have the full bodies of the antelopes and you have not cropped to show the heads & interlocked horns only.
    Coming in tighter on the heads might add to the impact.

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    The clouds made a nice diffuser that day. If it were mine I would try to brighten the eyes a bit.

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    Rachel, thank you for your suggestion. I brought up the whites a tad more.

    Martin, thank you for your comments regarding the crop, here is a RP with a tad tighter crop.

    Stan, I tried, but this is as much as I would like to brighten the eyes.

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    Loi, I like the crop, I think the photo has more impact this way, it involves us more in the action. What do you think though, it is your photo?

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    Loi, I think the rp works better.

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    Loi, I like the way you captured this scene, and I do prefer the RP, more dramatic.

    Regarding eyes, I have one thought on the matter: when dealing with such dark/pitch black eyes, isn't it perhaps better to lighten the small area around the pupil and leave the pupil and the iris black? Let us see what the other say

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gabriela Plesea View Post
    Loi, I like the way you captured this scene, and I do prefer the RP, more dramatic.

    Regarding eyes, I have one thought on the matter: when dealing with such dark/pitch black eyes, isn't it perhaps better to lighten the small area around the pupil and leave the pupil and the iris black? Let us see what the other say

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    Hi Gabriela, I had the same thought as you, but in this case the eyes looking a little dull since there isn't a catch light. By brightening up the dark eyes a little bit, there is a little bit of reflection that brings some life to the image,. I could see that I over-did it a little here, and a little bit less bright would be the better thing to do. Thank you for your comments. Lou

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gabriela Plesea View Post
    Loi, I like the way you captured this scene, and I do prefer the RP, more dramatic.

    Regarding eyes, I have one thought on the matter: when dealing with such dark/pitch black eyes, isn't it perhaps better to lighten the small area around the pupil and leave the pupil and the iris black? Let us see what the other say

    Kind regards,
    Hi Gabriela, I had the same thought as you, but in this case the eyes looking a little dull since there isn't a catch light. By brightening up the dark eyes a little bit, there is a little bit of reflection that brings some life to the image,. I could see that I over-did it a little here, and a little bit less bright would be the better thing to do. Thank you for your comments. Lou

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    Loi, nice action here. Good points already addressed above, I like your RP. Still feel you could bump up the whites and tweak the histogram overall a bit to add "life" to the image.
    I like the way you framed it in OP but you actually improved on the framing with your RP crop.
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