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    It's early morning and the alpha female from the Kusini kopje pride surveys her territory. Yes I would have preferred a head turn a little more towards me, but I do have plenty of her from the other side in golden light.

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    Nice look out pose Marc with good detail and sharpness. Nicely framed too.

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    Hi Marc - Sorry but this one isn't working for me. I think it is the angle of shooting as well. If you were above and shooting down so that the viewer sees what the lioness sees then I wouldn't mind that we only see her from behind. There's just nothing grabbing my interest here or engaging me in the image. Of course, this is just my subjective opinion. Others may differ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rachel Hollander View Post
    Hi Marc - Sorry but this one isn't working for me. I think it is the angle of shooting as well. If you were above and shooting down so that the viewer sees what the lioness sees then I wouldn't mind that we only see her from behind. There's just nothing grabbing my interest here or engaging me in the image. Of course, this is just my subjective opinion. Others may differ.

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    I have to agree with you Rachel and should have taken Steve K's advice about .......sitting back for a while and actually think before posting. The lack of favourable H/A is a big issue here.
    It's this new NEC 27" I'm blaming as everything just comes up so well on that.


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    Hi Marc , it is not ideal from the HA POV ....... but i think it is not that bad , it lets the viewer think what is she looking at . I think as a stand alone image it does not work that great , maybe in a sequence .
    I would have liked to see more room for the lioness to look into . And the head even more away from the viewer . But we cannot have all .

    Oh well Marc what would you post if you could see your images on the new EIZO 31" 4K screen , i am a bit afraid what you would post then ................. ,,,,,,,,,, LOL .
    Hope you enjoy the new NEC

    TFS Andreas

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    Hello Marc,

    Still busy to make up my mind about this image, for that reason I haven't passed a comment earlier, although I looked a couple of times already while at work today.

    What I do like here is the concentration on the lioness's face as she obviously saw something "down there in the valley"... indeed, she is the one and only Kopje Queen, and judging by her condition she is one powerful girl with great hunting skills:) Like Andreas put it, I would love to see more space for her to look into, but in the same breath I do not feel the need to see her face ( I like that the image leaves a bit to the imagination). Would perhaps like to see the "bigger picture" in terms of the environment, if I may put it this way, maybe a taller kopje... As it is, I would just brighten up a bit her majesty the lioness - a special sighting Marc, thank you so much for sharing

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    Marc I'm the first guy to say you don't need eye contact to make an image usable.
    Would this have been better with a sligthly better head angle and a glinted eye visible? Sure.
    Do I still like this? Yes - soft light and great setting and she's looking with intent. If the animals are always looking down our lenses they'll not be doing much of what we are there to photograph - behaving naturally
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    Morkel, I'm the first girl to say I don't need to see the face of the lioness

    I would have shot this scene too, no doubt about it. If available, I would have used a 200 lens, just to get more context. I still like this, Marc. I love lions and everything they do. Like Morkel says, there's intent and purpose here, the image leaves some for the imagination - which makes it memorable to me:)

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    Mark,

    Not every wildlife image needs to have eye contact to work.. Leads me to imagine what she's looking at.. Will she hunt etc. A bit more context may help a bit. A well respected editor of a major natural history magazine told me she gets very tired of seeing head on wildlife images so there is room out there for these type of images...

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