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    The little 3 month old male Leopard cub being very brave here! :D
    We spent over an hour with Mum and her two cubs, the other a female.
    Watching them play and interact with Mum and then settle down to suckle, this was very special
    and not often seen for this long nor in daylight hours.
    It was an afternoon I'll never forget. Will post some more of the trio soon.
    Sth Luangwa Nat Park- Zambia.

    Nikon D2Xs
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    1/250s
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    C & C most welcome

    Cheers
    Marc
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    Marc, the cub is really nice here although a bit dark towards his shoulders. The BG is really noisy, though...You might want to run a noise reduction on it.

    Love the cubs expression and you did a really nice job of getting the focus right.
    Last edited by Julie Kenward; 07-13-2008 at 06:42 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julie Kenward View Post
    Marc, the cub is really nice here although a bit towards his shoulders. The BG is really noisy, though...You might want to run a noise reduction on it.

    Love the cubs expression and you did a really nice job of getting the focus right.
    Hi Jules

    The last couple of images I've submitted (including this one) have had some noise comments, the problem
    is that I have run then through Neat Image. It's also the reason why I have now sold my D2Xs for the D300,
    I loved the D2xs, buy it's noise issues past ISO 400 needed filtering.
    Not sure whether I can improve on the Leopard cub image, re. further noise filtering? Any ideas?

    Cheers
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    I'm really surprised Neat Image didn't do a better job - I've gotten really great results with it. Two things you could try...select the background and do a really light gaussian blur - sometimes that will cut way down on the noise that is detected. Also, you could try the blur tool - make it fairly big and put the opacity at 50% and do all around the areas that have noise in them. This tool is really great at helping to pull away the noise but it does leave the area with a blur so make sure not to get it where you don't want it.

    One last thing to check is how you are saving the image. If you use Photoshop CS3 or Elements to do post processing you might want to skip using the "save for web" option as that tends to give me worse results than if I use the plain "save as" option. If that's not the case, then one last thing is to make sure you have the neat image profile for your particular camera...that can sometimes help. Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss it further. I'll be happy to help you trouble shoot through it unless you're sure it's the camera that is to blame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julie Kenward View Post
    I'm really surprised Neat Image didn't do a better job - I've gotten really great results with it. Two things you could try...select the background and do a really light gaussian blur - sometimes that will cut way down on the noise that is detected. Also, you could try the blur tool - make it fairly big and put the opacity at 50% and do all around the areas that have noise in them. This tool is really great at helping to pull away the noise but it does leave the area with a blur so make sure not to get it where you don't want it.

    One last thing to check is how you are saving the image. If you use Photoshop CS3 or Elements to do post processing you might want to skip using the "save for web" option as that tends to give me worse results than if I use the plain "save as" option. If that's not the case, then one last thing is to make sure you have the neat image profile for your particular camera...that can sometimes help. Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss it further. I'll be happy to help you trouble shoot through it unless you're sure it's the camera that is to blame.
    Hi Jules
    Thanks for the advice. i use CS3 for my PP, and always use "save as" option. Will have a look at the camera profile
    in Neat Image, I didn't know about that?
    Thanks again.


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