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Hi Richard - nice to see you posting in Wildlife. Good choice on the dof and the pano crop. It's great that 5 out of 6 were cooperative. In an ideal world the ears of the two does wouldn't merge but a very minor point. I do think that the image can use a little boost but it may be accurate to the cloudy conditions of the day.
It would be great if you could share your thoughts about other people's images.
TFS,
Rachel
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Hi Richard - I would lose a bit below, and add in a bit more above if you have it - i.e. shift the crop up a bit. That way, you lose the scruffy bushes at the bottom which are competing with the subjects. I also think that it could do with an exposure lift and perhaps a lift in the RH slider in Levels, to give it some life.
From a techs point of view, I would think that f9 was excessive depth of field to get them all sharp, and I'd have dropped to f6.3-f7.1 to get more shutter speed. 1/250s is very slow for a handheld/monopod? image of animals that may move, even if only a little bit.
Therefore, the whole image appears to be a little soft, which I suspect may be camera shake. What ISO were you using, and which camera? Then we might be able to give an indication whether you could have lifted ISO to get more SS - for next time...
Hope this helps.
Ed
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Hi Ed
Manty thanks for the crop suggestion.
Using a 7D at 800 ISO in low misty light, the camera 7D would noise out at anything above this in these conditions, but I fully agree faster would have been better.
Appreciate you posting up
BTW which camp are you at in South Luangwa - I spent 13 years in Ndola and many safaris in Luangwa!
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Richard - a follow up question, when you said "cloudy" was it a cloudy day or did you have the WB set to cloudy? I find with the 7D and most of the Canon cameras that a "cloudy" WB setting tends to skew toward yellow and red pretty heavily. Canons already skew toward yellow and red and the cloudy setting just augments it even more. I find it much better to shoot on AWB and make adjustments to temp in pp if I so desire.
Rachel
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Hi Richard, I might be tempted to change the WB to auto, to me the overall colour looks a little off and the image is soft? The above comments will also help you next time.
TFS
Steve
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Hi
I will play with WB in ACR
Weather was cloudy, AWB set
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Some valid points above and maybe work on the cloned area?
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