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    A high-key image of the beautiful female leopard at Timbavati.
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    Dear Sanjeev,

    She is indeed beautiful and you have captured a lovely dreamy pose here.

    I would have taken a bit off the RHS if this were mine, but only a tad. Not sure what your workflow was, the image as a whole seems a little "over processed" to me. Did you mask the subject and raised the exposure on the BG? The fur on the back of the leopard is lacking those fine hairs one would expect to see.

    I too am busy learning how to create a hi-key image, perhaps I am not qualified to comment here but I am sure you'll forgive me...my own threads hardly resemble the topic of the month. Just thought I'd mention a few things. I am told the BG is supposed to be all white in hi-key images, not 100% sure, let us see what the others say. I think you have a great image to begin with, well captured!

    Warmest regards,
    Gabriela Plesea

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    Hi Sanjeev, can I assume you went +.67 because of the BKG? She certainly is relaxed and I like the head resting on the branch with the eyes looking away, far into the distance. It's unfortunate about the blown highlights, hard to avoid in this situation, been there, so can understand. I originally had the same idea as Gabriela, but the OOF branch would then perhaps no linkage and looks to be floating IMHO, so I think it's OK as presented for my tastes. On the laptop overall the image looks a bit light, but that could well be the screen? I might have had a bit more DoF.

    TFS
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    Probably my favourite shot from you Sanjeev, stunning lady in a nice relaxed pose. It's a bit of a shame the oof branches are there, but I fully understand you couldn't start pruning away!

    Mike

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    Hi Sanjeev - She certainly does look relaxed on the branch. Personally I would not call this a high key image. While the bg is blown and as a result mostly white, the tonal range is not consistent with a high key image, there are shadows present and it is not low contrast. I tend to follow the traditional definition of high key where the vast majority is a mid-grey or brighter, there are few shadows and low contrast. If you look at your histogram a fair amount of the data is spread out and to the left of center. In a high key image the histogram is shifted to the right with most of the data to the right of center.

    My feeling is that you tried to expose for the leopard who was shaded in the field which resulted in the blown sky but that there was also some dappled light with bright spots hitting the leopard. Looks like some could not be recovered in pp. The area below the nose and the chin seem to be lacking the fine detail you have so successfully brought out in your other images.

    Sorry, just my thoughts. Others can, and apparently have, disagreed.

    TFS,
    Rachel

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    Hi Sanjeev cool relaxed pose of the lady . Nicely framed with nice colors and some nice tones in parts .
    Rachel has pretty much summed up my initial thoughts about this frame .

    For me this is not a good example of a HK frame neither it is a good "normal" image due to completely blown parts of the frame . Parts of the image are looking too recovered (HL ) .

    Sadly this is not working for me , Sanjeev

    TFS Andreas

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