Hello everyone, Thank you for your comments and suggestions to my previous post, as always much appreciated. I had this opportunity to create a Leopard scape in the Khwai region of Botswana which is dry as well as marshy. What I particularly liked in this frame is the big dry try , vast clouded sky, and the tiny looking leopard amongst the vast landscape. The leopard blends so well in its surroundings, no wonder it turns out to be so successful when it comes to hunting. I would really like to know how you perceive these kind of images, any sort of comments are welcome and appreciated. DPP 4.12, PSCC 2020, WB, levels, curves, selective colour, vib/sat.Canon 24-105mm IS II, Canon 1DX MK II, HH.ss 1/1250, f/9, iso 400Haseeb.
Hi Haseeb, certainly different for sure. It needs more at the foot if you have it, it's a wee bit tight and I think the habitat is looking a bit dark & has a slight sooty feel. If you could, as a lot of folk do, shoot on the ground I think would have helped, although the WA lens doesn't quite illustrate the close distance... Might be my old eyes but perhaps a slight rotation may help?
TFS
Steve
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I like the image and the nest, the leopard is pretty much inconsequential for me as it is facing the "wrong" way. I sense a slight anticlockwise rotation may help. I would have been tempted to include less sky - to just above the main tree and therefore make the tree and subject larger in the frame
As a landscape, I like it a lot Haseeb. Lovely composition, shows the marshy areas of Botswana well. Sadly, the leopard is kinda lost here and the back facing us is not helping much. Agree on more space at bottom. The sky is dramatic!
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Your photography has evolved so rapidly, I am really enjoying the way in which you are sometimes stepping away from the conventional
Leaving the technical stuff for Steve and Jon, I would like to say I absolutely love the mood here, the marbled sky and the barren tree and the leopard gazing into the landscape. Had you allowed enough space at the bottom of the frame you would have nailed this one 100%, IMO.
Nevertheless I still enjoyed it, very much. Thank you for sharing, and I look forward to the next image:)
Thank you Gabriela , Steve, Jon and Doc, really appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Yes, some space at the foot would have been better , and i do have some , but there was a tree stump in there and i better thought to crop it rather than cloning it out.
I really do like these small in frame images of animals , though I completely agree that sometimes the animal becomes insignificant in the frame, but the environment is what that dominates its inhabitants.
Hi Haseeb .... simply love the shot as it stands from the general idea of shooting it .
Great job of getting the shot in the field !!!
Personally i might process it differently in terms of various elements inside the image , but no wonder as we might see things differently .
If you like, fire me the file ....
Really enjoying your recent images and specially this kind of shots ... as you see things in the field that i mostly overlook .