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Hi Rachel a very fine and true /classic HK image .
Nice work .
I really like the soft tones and colors with very fine detail you brought out .
I am not 100% with the crop , the leopard looking out of the frame to the LHS and he is also on the LHS so you ending with a lot of dead space on RHS ?! . But your call . I would also loose some of the top , but that is as always a personal thing .
TFS Andreas
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Thanks Andreas. Yes, several alternate crop ideas come to mind. This is ff and I did not think about crop rather processed and posted it for demonstration and discussion purposes.
Thanks again,
Rachel
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Hello Rachel,
I am very taken with the Hi Key Theme and watching with much interest how everyone is tackling this. I think I got the idea in general, although the "low contrast" bit is a major issue with me because I like my subjects to "pop" a lot...now I have to learn to practice some constraint during processing
Regarding your leopard, I must say you had a great sighting and I really like the POV with the subject looking down, eyes almost into the camera. Image carefully processed as you managed to retain the natural colours as well as sufficient detail - I look forward to I try a colour Hi Key of my own, will try to keep in mind those guidelines you gave us above regarding toning, shadows and contrast.
Thank you Rachel, I enjoyed viewing and taking those hints along with me when I process my next image.
Hope you have a wonderful week-end, warmest regards,
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Hi Gabriela - I'm glad you like the high key theme and are enjoying experimenting. If I was processing this for myself, rather than for the discussion/demonstration purposes, I probably would have given it a bit more punch too and cropped it. Keep experimenting with high key including in the field. For me, a high key image starts with the exposure in the field. The processing is very limited.
Thanks,
Rachel
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Hi Rachel, I too think the HK theme has provided a good source of both interesting images and different thoughts in presenting them. I agree, rightly or wrongly that providing the image has some traits of HK then lets keep it flexible. For me the situation has always dictated the scene rather than taking an image and trying to create the scene in PP.
This particular image with the almost bleached out sky does I feel move towards HK, I just wonder however if like the PB image the 'strength' of colour is less and the 'whites' are higher????? I like having the weight of the termite mound on the LHS as it 'anchors' things for me, but agree a sliver off the top & RHS could also work too.
TFS
Steve
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Rachel, I really like the setting here. Very nice PP with good details, very nice habitat and i love the eye contact. TFS.
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Morning Rachel
My first thoughts when looking at this image was that it needed to be converted into monochrome but the more I look at it the more I like the soft gradual tones of colours. Great image.
I do think it needs to be cropped from the top right down towards the leopard just getting rid of some of the dead space on the right.
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Hey Rachel - I too like the pastel colours and high key look here, works well given the subject matter and time of day.
In an ideal world the OOF green bush left bottom would have been gone eh? That's the Lowveld for you 
I like Timothy's crop suggestion...
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