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Awesome eye contact and POV Nancy! I like the cleaning behaviour too. Rachel"s RP looks even better and great tips from her for PP. TFS.
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Very nice 'in your face' image although the IQ seems to have suffered a bit. Perhaps from the crop? I would like a bit more selective sharpening on the face.
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Super close up! You can get that close to these?
It doesn't look like a big crop hurt it much to me.
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Lovely close-up and intimate portrait here Nancy. Sadly the crop and high ISO setting for your camera (and perhaps some under-exposure in the field?) has resulted in a bit of a scrunchy look and reduced IQ...I wonder if slight tweaks to your RAW workflow for the 1Dmk4 would not yield better overall IQ?
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Beautiful setting and pose from the jaguar. I also agree that the IQ is suffering a bit - wonder why as I use that camera and I think you did everything right, but 1/400s is quite slow unless you were very still and he wasn't moving his head too much at the time.....? To me the hair on the shoulder looks a little sharper than the head - where was your focus point?
Ed
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edwardselfe
Beautiful setting and pose from the jaguar. I also agree that the IQ is suffering a bit - wonder why as I use that camera and I think you did everything right, but 1/400s is quite slow unless you were very still and he wasn't moving his head too much at the time.....? To me the hair on the shoulder looks a little sharper than the head - where was your focus point?
Ed
Some good points made by Ed here, however I'd be most concerned that a 400 lens with IS or VR and taken at a SS of 1/400s wasn't sufficient to acquire a sharp/quality image, granted that my subject was relatively static.
Trying not to blow trumpet here but I have no problem with good LLT getting sharp images with long VR lenses of at least down to SS of >100s.
I'm thinking that perhaps AF point was out slightly OR a large crop here Nancy?
TFS
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Lovely image Nancy, but as has already been said the IQ is not up to your usual standard.
Even on Rachel's re-post the colours are very cold (there was a slight blue cast on the OP) and might benefit from a bit of warming up.
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HI Nancy,
very nice image of this great animal. Lots of suggestions have been made already.
Agree with Rachel and Edward. ISO wise, I have the MKIV too. With ISO 1250 I have no big noise. I even pushed this camera over ISO 4000 in Svalbard. A bit work with the noise when above ISO3200, but still can be managed. It is just a noise learning curve in pp
. I watch all video tutorials on my noise software to get an idea and learn what every slider does! My first steps for noise is always LR in these days. If to doesn't get done properly in there I do the rest in PS.
Have a great day
Ciao
Anette
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[QUOTE=Anette Mossbacher;953077]HI Nancy,. I watch all video tutorials on my noise software to get an idea and learn what every slider does! My first steps for noise is always LR in these days. If to doesn't get done properly in there I do the rest in PS.
Anette do you use from time to time NR twice ? for what reason? why not once and than right?
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Hi Nancy ,
i like the Jaguar images you post here, one reason is they are rarely shown here.
You got already very good suggestions from the other members about color , whites and suffering IQ, in which i agree.
Like the tight crop for portrait with the tongue in use for clean up and the foliage framed head giving a nice contrast.Would try to tone down that one stick slightly.
TFS Andreas
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Hi Andreas, lolol
Anette do you use from time to time NR twice ? for what reason? why not once and than right?
With my last PB I had used a tad in LR, personally I was happy with the BG, but had little funny artifacts in the PB. Could not get rid of them in LR. So switched Noise reduction off in LR>ACR ( I open images as Smart Objects in CS) tried my Define in CS, was not happy. Downloaded the trial from Noiseware and was happy. I watched their video, best so far on tutorial I have seen for a Noise Software. NIK tutorials with Define s*** in that case for me 
This was the first case I had so far that I had to go back and switch off. Maybe I did something wrong, not sure, learning curve is never ending 
LR I do not use so long, guess since this spring or so! Now I use LR only, before I used ACR. At that time Define was the very last step. ACR I did not add to much, was never "so" happy with it. 
Ciao
Anette
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Thank you everyone for your thoughtful comments. I am mostly disappointed with my jaguar images because they are not sharp. This is not much of a crop. I was probably less than 50 ft, and I just got the entire body in the frame. Focus point is dead over the left eye as facing us. I have had both the camera and lens to Canon for cleaning, adjusting, etc. Never really have been overjoyed with the 400 DO, except that I can hand-hold it and carry it for hours. New lenses are so $$$. I was on a small boat, bobbing in the current. Blue tones probably because the jaguar is in shadow.
Rachel, thank you again, for the suggestions and posting an improved image.