Walking on Sunshine

[Rachel Hollander]

This is the lioness that Steve and I have referred to as Dumay's lioness because we met Dumay over the sighting. This is a little bit earlier in the morning when the male was following the female as she walked. Here the sun was just starting to break through and we were traveling on the road parallel to the two lions with a chance for them to be backlit.

Canon 5D3
70-200 II @ 200mm
1/2000
f5.6
ISO 1600
HH from safari vehicle, cropped to straighten, levels, curves, sharpened in CCPS.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Beautiful scene captured here Rachel. I like the positioning of the lioness and the back light helps in highlighting the animal.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Super image, I may consider a small crop from the base I think this would help reduce the large "empty" grassy space on the bottom and left side. I like the lighting and the rim lighting on the lioness. I think I may take a slight trim off the top too, the sky is featureless, I don't think it adds a great deal to the otherwise wonderful grasses and lioness.

[Anette Mossbacher]

Hi Rachel, had it in CC, something bothered me. The crop I might would do different, tried a few could not find one yet which I liked.
Also would brighten up the fence a tad. Have here the file sitting, but will wait what others say first.
Now a coffee, was a hard day with rain, looks like Swissy changed it's quarters to the mainland UK

Have a great day


Ciao
Anette

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Sanjeev, Jonathan and Anette. I do have a version that I cropped a little closer but decided I preferred the wider view. I can revisit the crop.

Anette - I'm not sure what you're are seeing but there is no fence in the image.

Thanks again,
Rachel

[Anette Mossbacher]

Rachel, not fence, this is fantastic crap autopilot running on my keyboard all the time. Was wondering of what you are talking now, as myself could not see a fence, but a face

[Katie Rupp]

Hi Rachel,

Nice early morning color showing off the back-lighting. I agree with taking a bit off the bottom.

Best,
Katie

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Katie.

Here's the tighter cropped version with more off the bottom than top.

Thanks again,
Rachel

[Dumay de Boulle]

Gorgeous image, you exposed it perfectly. I love the backlight. Very nice Rachel!

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Rachel, much prefer the OP.

Can only echo Dumay in the above reply, you can feel the sun in that habitat!!!

TFS
Steve

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Dumay and Steve, much appreciated.

[Morkel Erasmus]

The light is well handled here and adds lots of mood/warmth to the image, Rachel. I much prefer the RP crop!