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    A relaxed leopard @ Timbavati. She gave me ample opportunity to shoot both close ups with the 500 II and some wide shots with the 70-200 II. This one is at 200mm with the 5D III.
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    Hi Sanjeev -She certainly looks relaxed. Do you know which leopard it is? The exposure looks like it was tough. If it were mine I would open up the midtones a little. It just gives the whole image a lift. It looks like there may be a little CA/fringing in the thinner branches. Like us, you certainly had some good leopard sightings.

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    I think you did well exposing the Leopard, the BG may be a little bright but I knowhow tough these are to expose evenly...I have been in this situation at least 50 times if not more. The IQ on the Leopard is fantastic. i would try a tighter crop for my taste to eliminate as many of the wall and large branches as I can. But I am not sure if thats what you are going for.

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    Very nice image from a difficult location. I love the tail wrapped around the tree trunk. I wonder how you managed to get detail in the fur given the strong backlight. Strong Shadow setting?
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    Hi Sanjeev, certainly a nice image of this cat. Love her legs dangling down the tree. You go already some suggestions above what you can do better.
    have a great day

    Ciao Anette

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    Hi Sanjeev , very cool and lazy leopard. Well handled backlighting and you have nice detail and overall tones in the frame.I am fine with the crop as presented even if a bit busy , not much you could do about.

    The Cyan/Blue fringing is actually not fringing , because it covers the whole twigs not only the edges . From my understanding , under these conditions the blue of the sky is bleeding into the darker twigs . Even visible in your other posting with deeper blue sky .

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    Hi Sanjeev, lovely image and I think I prefer this frame to the previous posting.

    Agree with Dumay about the IQ, good camera techs here . Always hard to avoid the branches touching the subject, so perhaps something like this, but you may like to consider either just stopping them short, and easy edit also just removing the blue in the branches. Perhaps too much of an edit, but cropping to a 16x10 just compresses things, but still retaining the focus on the subject. Personally I do feel there is still to much dead space to the right, but wanted to retain as much IQ.

    Nice one.

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