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This is one gory image Rachel! Very powerful pic that showcases the teamwork and power of these wild dogs! Very well composed and great techs giving the low light situation.
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Hi Rachel, this is certainly a powerful image. What a sighting! An animal cornered by wild dogs certainly die a horrible painful death, as they start eating before killing the animal.
I certainly know how difficult it can be in low light to take sharp images of wildlife. I experienced it myself again early October this year in the Timbavati, when lions only started feeding on a giraffe they killed earlier the day when the light was really low, and I had a real battle to come away from there with acceptable sharp images.
The composition works and the colours look very natural. No issue with the techs, as I can understand you didn't want to push the ISO any higher. Thanks for sharing!
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Hi Rachel must have been thrilling to witness this , no problem to see that , i do not see anything looking gore . I just see a great documentation of real life of the WD and their behavior .
I like the color and the overall tone/contrast , does look better than the first image from that POV. Think you made the best out of the kit from composition POV .
I would have pushed the Iso way higher to get a sharper image with more DOF , instead of less noise and motion blur inn the moving animals . I think we can deal better with eliminating noise rather than eliminating Blur
! But sometimes we have to pay a price.
TFS Andreas
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Thanks Sanjeev, Thinus and Andreas. Andreas - you're right about blur vs. noise.
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Hi Rachel, it was incredible to see just how fast the whole episode took and how quickly they despatched the kill. I feel I'm with Andreas, although now with hindsight, higher ISO on this, the movement within the shot is a little great for me and is good to show depiction, but it's one I might quickly skip in selection, but just my take., sorry. 
TFS
Steve
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I would be in the least concerned about gore, it is a natural sight and I do not believe you are glorying death or pain, It is a good shot. Now I don't expect too may of you to agree with me but if you were in manual mode using the setting you wanted for a sharp image you would have gotten the shot with Auto ISO. I am not stirring things I don't want to cause friction but Auto ISO and manual mode (which can be over/underexposed in any event) I don't think you could go wrong.
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Thanks Dumay, Steve and Jon. Jon - I was in manual mode but don't shoot on Auto ISO. Quite frankly I almost never want an ISO greater than 3200. I shoot mainly to print rather than for web display so what might be acceptable for web display due to size/noise is often not acceptable IMHO to print. I consider this more of a record shot and shared it because people had asked me to and it fit the theme.
Thanks again,
Rachel
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Intense image Rachel!
I like it, and I also like that there's movement with the dog second from LHS's sharp eyes a good focal point for me to rest on.
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Nothing wrong with a little gore, I do not understand people having objections to it in a nature image. For me this is powerful, intense and simply a great image.
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Thanks Gabriela, Morkel and Neil, much appreciated.