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Marc you do produce some excellent images but every so often you come up with something exceptional and this for me is one of them,I could sit and look at it for hours ,wonderful sky and then the small matter of the Leopard that you almost must find.Hope I have expressed myself well and will leave any tec bits to others.
Keith.
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Love the asymmetry here.
Love the dramatic colors and where you placed the leopard. Very well seen!
gail
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Hi Marc - This is fantastic. Love the setting sun and sunset colors. The leopardess takes it to a whole other level. I'm a little surprised at the techs but it seems to have worked. i would have stopped down for more dof and not had the tc on. In a truly ideal world the leopardess would have cooperated and faced to the left surveying the area but then that's because nature always robs of the truly perfect image so we keep pursuing this obsession. Really well done! I'm sure you'll be entering this into the contests.
TFS,
Rachel
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Great image Marc. Rachel said it all for me and so well. Well done.
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Many thanks Keith, Gail, Rachel & Jay for your positive comments.
Originally Posted by
Rachel Hollander
Hi Marc - This is fantastic. Love the setting sun and sunset colors. The leopardess takes it to a whole other level. I'm a little surprised at the techs but it seems to have worked. i would have stopped down for more dof and not had the tc on.
Shooting into the sunset, my goal for this subject was always going to be a silhouette, therefore DOF does not (technically) enter the equation, all I require is a black subject, having said that, knowing the superb dynamic range of the D850, I was able to pull back some good shadow detail in the FG and rock in editing to give some depth to the image.
I do have plenty at a wider perspective with my D810 & 24-70, so hence why I left the tc on the 70-200, remembering that due to my smashed D5/400/f2.8 combo, rendered this as my long lens by default.
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Rachel Hollander
In a truly ideal world the leopardess would have cooperated and faced to the left surveying the area but then that's because nature always robs of the truly perfect image so we keep pursuing this obsession.l
Frustrating for sure Rachel and she actually gave us another chance a few days later with another sunset whereby she cooperated by facing to the left, will post some of these in the future.
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This deserves a big print on your wall. Nothing less would do it justice! All has been said in the other critiques. Very fine work indeed. BTW, the leopard facing the other way to what we might want in the 'perfect' picture actually causes me to stop, look and think. So in that regard, I think it adds. It's a little different and novel. To me that's a plus.
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HI Marc -- Simply magical frame ! Loved the colours and the Leopard takes this to another level . For sure Leopard facing to the left would have been an ideal frame but not many frames such as this are produced time and again , works for me as presented . TFS !
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Wonderful. Just wonderful.
Period.
TFS
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Blown away - my kind of image and you know that. Wow.
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I am speechless......this is sublime !! Definately one of the best wildlife images i have ever seen imho