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    Two of the Three Cheetah Brother coalition taken near Lagoon, Kwando Concession, Northern Botswana

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    F8, 1/2000, ISO 400

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    Hi Ken:

    I LOVE the composition here. The alignment of the animals is wonderful. Great job on this image.

    Steve

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    Ken,
    I love the the way the Cheetah on the left has formed a nice curve. I like the composition. The togatherness shows their bonding. Good one. Thanks for sharing.

    Cheers,
    Sabyasachi

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    They are such lean, elegant cats, lovely composition, exposure and presentation.

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    Ken, First of all I love your title. The Cheetahs are posed together so nicely-really well done.

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    Beautifully captured with a superb composition and poses. Love it !!!

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    Good looking image for all the reasons mentioned about but I find it to be flat looking. I reposted here with a local contrast enhancement (http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=20434) using USM set at 20/50/0. I then selected the sky, refined the feathering and masked it out.

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    Robert,

    Thanks for that an interesting repost, I will look at the thread. I see what you mean about my version, but I find the saturation in the repost a little too much.

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    Ken,
    I agree. Splitting the difference in the two posts would be IMO close to perfect.

    Very cool image!

    James

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    Ken and James,

    My goal was to demo the enhancement that LCE can achieve. The increase in saturation can occur but I feel that it was more a function of going back and forth with the downloaded image and resaving as a JPG, etc. I noticed the saturation issue but did not mention it knowing that you could correct per your taste.

    A little reduction on the saturation and playing around with the LCE settings and you will get it perfect. :)

    Glad I could help out.

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    Ken, a very nice opportunity you had here and for me, sweetly composed. I do concur that a little more PP' work will really make it pop.

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    Gotta love this subject and composition! I like the soft light, but you might pop it with a bit more contrast, though the African pallette of early/late soft light sometimes looks better to me in a flatter rendition-if that makes sense. Very nice!

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    Wonderful composition and the suggestions to improve the contrast are good ones. What kind of mound are they resting on?

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    It's a termite mound, but I have no idea as to what type of termite. They are very common place in this area of Botswana. They are a favourite spot for Cheetahs to rest on and obtain an elevated view of their surroundings, looking for prey or danger.

    I will look at the contrast situation, and if I can get an improvement post it here tomorrow, it is allready late in SA.

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    Hopefully a final repost, I have boosted the contrast and must admit it looks better, but whether it represents the actual scene is still a little unclear to me.

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    I like it Ken. In my repost I had much to much saturation that I should have corrected.

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