Hi Everyone!
Back after a long absence, had my kids and parents for the December holidays, combine that with draining days at work..All you do is work, come home cook and entertain..
No time for anything else...
Trying to return to normal, found that I am so rusted with PP, falling about!?
This is new for me, the High Key effect. Hope this meet the criteria.. Found an old image that I like, was not the sharpest, but processed it as best I can..
LR5 for RAW and B&W conversion, CS6 normal adjustment layers, some TK to tame the whites and get some detail in blacks.
Two rounds of selective sharpening after resizing.
Some history behind the image: Captured October 2012, the most/often lions ever seen. The Eland comes down to the Riverbeds from the dunes for some unknown reasons some years, the first for me in 20years.
Their bulk and lack of speed make them very easy prey for a pride of lions at the waterholes, they were decimated..
Our Rooiputs pride which consist of between 6-8 individuals, killed almost every night at the water, not 300m from our campsite.
The lions were obese, glutinous, but could not resist the easy meal. To this day you can see the remains of the Eland around waterholes in both Nossob and Auob riverbeds.
This sub-adult male has just woken up from an midday-heat siesta with grass in his mane, dried blood caking from the early morning meal. He is thirsty, need to drink and rest more for tonight...
We had them coming to investigate our camp some mornings-
it can be a real handful to control 8 lions not to destroy your camp![]()
Techs
Nikon D3S with 600 F4
1/320 @6,3 (might explain the lack of sharpness?)
ISO 2500
Aperture Priority with Centre Weighted Metering
+0.3EV







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to get his attention. He has certainly not the nice hairdo like Rachel`s fat Kruger lion walking on the road . 

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