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    A female leopard gives a head turn to look at us @ Timbavati in the morning golden light.
    Removed a couple of twigs/reeds sticking out of the leopards head & in front. Normally I do not like to clone out things unless its too distracting or where I feel it won't affect/alter the main subject.
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    Hi Sanjeev - nice fierce look she gave you. Colors look good though there is the slightest amount of blue in the whites in the lrc. Nice tones and light. If the shadow wasn't across the face it would be perfect but nothing you can do about it. If it were mine I would back off slightly on the sharpening on the top of the head and the leopard's right ear (left as we look at it). That area is sharper than the eyes and face.

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    Sanjeev very nice look of her as she thinks , hey man leave me alone .
    I like overall color and tone and the comp with relatively smooth BG , but you have a good separation between subject and BG , so this works for me. What bothers me a bit is the detail in the fur in parts , maybe it is just the 7D , i am talking about the HL details where you have lost some of the finer details ?
    Was this frame overexposed and you recovered some how the HL , maybe i could be completely wrong .

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    Nice light and look-back pose here Sanjeev.
    I agree with Andreas' assessment of the highlights details...The bright OOF grass bottom RHS is also catching my eye and I would crop in closer to remove that.
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    Thanks everyone. Rachel, I will look closer at the sharpening. Andreas, yes it was slightly over exposed and I did pull back the HL in PP. Morkel, I will crop a bit to lose that OOF grass. Appreciate your feed back.

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    Hi Sanjeev, gorgeous cat, nice soft light and I like the soft/gentle shadow, creates more dimension, depth and forum, it helps IMHO otherwise it could look flat! Nice detail and I'm OK re sharpening looks fine to me, just the right ear does look as sharp compared to the left? You could you a graduate filter to soften the whites and knock them back a bit, just personal preference, or even s slight vignette? I would pull in a fraction on the RHS to loose the grass stalks.

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