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    This leopardess had just spotted a lone puku male some 100M away, making for this beautiful attentive pose.
    We stayed with her from the start of the hunt to her (unfortunately) unsuccessful finish, granting me some wonderful & favourable daylight stalking images. Just a thrill to observe her behaviour.

    I left the framing in my preferred 2:3 ratio, some may prefer less negative RHS spacing, but would have called for a less favourable (IMO) 4-5 ratio, and works either way, but left as is.

    South Luangwa NP- Zambia.

    D4s 500 f/4 VR 1/1250s ISO400 f/6.3. F/F and for once the 500 was just about right. The usual levels, curves, USM, S/H & mid point adj in ACR/PS CC.

    C & C most welcome

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    Wow nice sighting Marc & great pose. Nice eye contact and composition.

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    Hi Marc - I agree, great pose and the comp works for me. She looks long and lean, almost like a cheetah's body. Tones look good. Do you feather your selection when applying selective sharpening? It seems that you are getting a hard edge/halo in some places like along her back and in the upper right of the tree.

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    Wow, what a specimen and I really like the tree she's in. Comp. works for me as well.

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    Thanks Sanjeev & Rachel.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rachel Hollander View Post
    Do you feather your selection when applying selective sharpening? It seems that you are getting a hard edge/halo in some places like along her back and in the upper right of the tree.

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    I always feather the edges when using USM, and was only used on the cat.
    I'm thinking the very slight halo was most likely from keeping the blue in the sky when warming up my WB selectively in layers on just the tree & leopard.


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    Marc,

    Nice pose and good eye contact. Certainly, not an easy shot to come by. However, I found the light colored circle to the right of the animal drew my attention away from the subject. I thought a vertical 4x5 aspect crop that eliminates the blue circle would make a nice alternative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas Bolt View Post
    Marc,

    I thought a vertical 4x5 aspect crop that eliminates the blue circle would make a nice alternative.

    Thanks Doug.

    I did consider that option but felt such a close 4x5 crop ratio would leave the leopard with limited looking space.


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    Hi Marc nice pose and comp in this one . They seem to have more photogenic trees in Zambia compared to SA , having Sanjeev´s leopards images in mind .

    TFS Andreas

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    Thanks Andreas

    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas Liedmann View Post
    They seem to have more photogenic trees in Zambia compared to SA , having Sanjeev´s leopards images in mind .

    TFS Andreas
    Very much so, with Ruaha in Tanzania an even better location, with huge areas of baobab .


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    Can't add much more here mate - love the pose, setting and light!
    Perhaps make the leopard pop a wee bit more with a subtle selective midtone adjustment?
    Looking forward to more...
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    Hi Marc,

    great pose for sure. Love all and around, nothing to add here either

    Have a great eve

    Ciao
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    Hi Marc

    Absolutely fantastic posé, SLNP really delivers.

    If it was me, I would try to selectively lighten the leopard a bit.

    TFS / Gregor

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