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    The sun has set and one of four pride males awakens on a kopje to a beautiful rising full moon.
    (This is a composite of 2 images enabling both the lion and the moon in focus)

    Kusini plains- Serengeti, Northern Tanzania

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    Nicely processed and I like the cooler tones signifying the fall of night.
    I am 50/50 on the "in focus" moon. My mind just knows that you won't ever get both in focus eh - it does work, but I think I would slightly prefer the natural version with a soft, OOF moon?
    The cool thing about photographing cats in dusk light is how large and alert their pupils are dilated. Of course I don't have to mention that I love the setting on the open rock.
    Perhaps you could even get away with upping the subject brightness a wee bit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Morkel Erasmus View Post
    Nicely processed and I like the cooler tones signifying the fall of night.
    I am 50/50 on the "in focus" moon. My mind just knows that you won't ever get both in focus eh - it does work, but I think I would slightly prefer the natural version with a soft, OOF moon?
    The cool thing about photographing cats in dusk light is how large and alert their pupils are dilated. Of course I don't have to mention that I love the setting on the open rock.
    Perhaps you could even get away with upping the subject brightness a wee bit?
    Thanks Morkel,

    totally understand your POV and I must admit I also was unsure which version to submit, however as you know I try to envisage as to what our own eyes are seeing

    and this is virtually "as is" apart from increasing the lighting on the lion a tad already, and yes it is worth perhaps a little more. All very subjective of course, I think one could get

    10 different photographers assessing an image and come up with 10 different visions.

    You're probably asking why didn't I wait for a moon higher in the night sky..........well we were already pushing curfew as it was.
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    Hi Marc - I have looked at this a couple of times trying to decide if it worked for me with both "in focus" (though the moon looks slightly soft). Morkel summed up my thoughts well. I did wonder why you didn't wait for the moon to be higher so thanks for explaining that. It does look like a rather majestic lion, overseeing his kingdom. I would be curious to see the image of the lion in focus without the moon swapped.

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    Hi Marc -- Agree with Morkel , the scene is very beautiful but i would have prefered the moon oof rather than both in focus . Also that glow around the moon would have been there which actually is adding to the mood of the image . And the Lion can be brightened a bit more . Nonetheless these are some amazing settings in which one can encounter a Lion .

    TFS !

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