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Hi Marc - Welcome back. I like the pose on the branch and the intensity of her stare at the prey. Sharpness looks good and I like the conversion but the high ISO has introduced a lot of noise and gritty look to the leopard. I understand though not using a spotlight so as not to give her position away while on the hunt so applaud your ethics once again.
TFS,
Rachel
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Hi Marc -- definitely the BW version for me and i am ok with the noise in it , gives a vintage feel to the image. I really liked the pose and appreciate your work ethic as always. very nicely done.
TFS !
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I like both versions of this one. Nice pose and i like that stare. Looks great for that high ISO.
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Stunning detail at that ISO with the B&W working quiet well here. Nice one Marc. Look forward to more.
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Hi Marc ...i do like the image from the content POV , with the Leopard looking into the dead space !!
Well framed and captured .
The B&W does work well in terms of contrast and tone , the color version is a bit too contrasty in my eyes .
Both versions ... does not work well in terms of noise , well just my honest opinion , would accept better IQ at that LOW HIGH Iso for a Nikon . But easy to say without seeing the RAW .
Nevertheless it is worth trying a version with less contrast to avoid the high noise level .
TFS Andreas
Sanjeev .... wonder where you see detail , i just see tons of noise .
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I like the shallow DOF here and the leopard emerging out of darkness.
Have to agree it looks just a tad too noisy from what I would expect given the gear that was used - perhaps it was a tad underexposed to begin with? My initial thoughts on the techs were that you could easily have gone to 1/800 or even 1/500 with that lens and gained some ISO/exposure?
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Ugh, hate it when that happens.
I often set the cameras to jpg for using at home shooting family stuff. Then go on a trip, takes me 2 days to realised I never set it to RAW again...
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I don't wish to be a smart *** but for the very reasons you mention I never set my DSLRs to jpeg, we will only have to guess what the result would have been had it been taken in raw. Sorry I have to say the first think I noticed was noise in the B&W and the colour version, without so much noise I bet it would have been a really good image.
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Originally Posted by
Jonathan Ashton
I don't wish to be a smart *** but for the very reasons you mention I never set my DSLRs to jpeg, we will only have to guess what the result would have been had it been taken in raw. Sorry I have to say the first think I noticed was noise in the B&W and the colour version, without so much noise I bet it would have been a really good image.
I hear you Jonathan, have even had this happen to me when sending in my bodies for service @ Nikon Switzerland to find them returned set to JPG, got caught once with this.
Agree....it's best not to set any menus to any JPG only setting.
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Hi Marc, I like color version better. For ISO 25600, final result is impressive. For B&W, I think if you subtract some black from white in selective color adjustment, it will make whites brighter and improve the image IMHO.
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Thanks Jay
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Jay Shah
For B&W, I think if you subtract some black from white in selective color adjustment, it will make whites brighter and improve the image IMHO.
That's one of the techniques I used (albeit on a less subtle basis, as over doing it gives less satisfying results) with this image already.