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    Another frame from my recent trip to the Mala Mala. We were having coffee break at the bank of the Sand River when 3 spotted hyenas came in for a drink. They eventually climbed out of the river on this rock looking down at me.

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    Reduced exposure by -0.4EV in LR CC
    Opened up the mid tone slightly
    Reduced the Magenta and Blue in Hue/Sat in PS CC
    Cropped top, right, bottom to ~ 50% of FF

    I struggled a bit with the PP, so hope you can give some feedback

    Thank you

    Loi

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    Hi Loi - I think the pp looks very good here. Colors and tones look good for conditions. The pov is great and the dripping water adds. I do wish for a little more room on the left but from your intro understand that you probably don't have it.

    TFS,
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    Hi Loi, a very nice low POV image with good PP and IQ. The HA, the dripping water and terrain all add up nicely. TFS.

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    Hi Loi -- Lovely eye contact and great low POV , very nicely processed. The colors and sharpness all look good . well done .
    TFS !

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    Hi Loi

    Good eye contact and POV!
    Water drops on the beast adds to the image.
    I think the 50% crop is to much for IQ, some of noise creeping in, loss of detail on hayena.
    Did you do any pre-sharpening in LR? It may have amplified noise..
    My suggestion is a smaller crop, some NR in BG and burning a bit the rocks..
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    Hi Loi the side profile of the Hyena does work quite well and i agree the dripping water adds to the image .
    The colors and tones do look quite nice to me , besides the rocks that Andre already mentioned .
    I also agree that IQ seems to have suffered a bit from that crop . I do not see that much noise though .Image does look a bit crunchy in parts and too soft in parts of the fur ?
    With my RP i try to illustrate two things .... the rocks being burned and the red arrows are showing the weird looking softish fur ?

    TFS Andreas

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