Jhalana Reserve Leopard

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Another image of the leopard from Jhalana, near Jaipur, Rajasthan.
5D IV
100-400 II
1/320
f/5.6
ISO 3200

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Sanjeev, sorry forgot you have the 100-400 so what I said in my reply might be pointless???

The more I see these images the more I find the central bow truncating the Leopard more of an issue, in the time could you not have moved left and shot tighter to avoid this? The branches again need to go, but if you are reluctant, then just remove the one near the ear. The BKG like the previous ones could go richer in colour, but not sure if this is then reflective, or an artistic thought? I think the ISO is beginning ever so slightly to show, did you lift the image? Like the framing and choice of crop, but please say you shot portrait and this is not landscape cropped to portrait?

TFS
Steve

[John Mack]

The vertical composition of this one is quite nice. The pose on the leopard is pretty good looking. Like how you can see the teeth.

[Mike Diersing]

Nice, full body shot with animated facial expression. I'd also agree that overall it could use a bit more contrast and saturation (esp. in the greens in the BG), and perhaps a touch higher noise reduction. Overall very nice image.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Sanjeev - I like the look toward camera here better than the one that was more in profile. I took it into PS and tried to even out the tones and colors in the leopard's fur and give it a little more punch which I have been suggesting for each of these images.

TFS,
Rachel

[haseeb badar]

Hi Doc -- Rachels RP is really very nice, i too had similar thoughts in terms of tones right from the first image of this series when you posted.