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    Photographed near Ndutu, Tanzania Jan 23. 5D Mark II, Canon 500 mm f/4 L IS lens plus a 1.4x teleconverter. Exposure: 1/500 second at ISO 400, f/5.6. Image cropped to 12 megapixels. The AF with a single focus point was a challenge, but I nailed the focus on the eye.

    I'm trying to decide if I like this image. I like the eye and the impact, but the many sticks are distracting.
    What do you think?

    Roger
    P.S. I had a great trip. Many images to come. The 5D2 became my primary camera (over my 1DII). The AF accuracy and 21 megapixels were stunning, with impressive sharpness at the pixel level.
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    The background and foreground are distracting, as you said. Particularly the branches in front of the face, and the harsh shadows at the upper right of the image.

    But you do what you can with wildlife, right? You caught him in his natural habitat, and short of him posing for you, you did the best you could. I think focus and composition were right on, while the scene really tested the DR of the Mark II.

    You meant f/8.0 right?

    Colin

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    Leopards are never easy and here you an extremely cluttered sighting, you can sometimes be lucky but not often.
    The only suggestion I can come up with is you need to visit Africa again, eventually you will see a Leopard in a better situation, or on the ground. At least you saw the Leopard in its real habitat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken Watkins View Post
    Leopards are never easy and here you an extremely cluttered sighting, you can sometimes be lucky but not often.
    The only suggestion I can come up with is you need to visit Africa again, eventually you will see a Leopard in a better situation, or on the ground. At least you saw the Leopard in its real habitat.
    Thanks Ken,
    I have hundreds of leopard images, many nice and clean. I'll post more as I get more processed.
    This one was just different. It was a really luck trip. ;-)

    Roger

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    Roger,

    Thanks, I look forward to seeing some more.

    Cheers

    Ken

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    Wow...that eye is piercing through my monitor....and really draws my atterention. However, this photograph is just a bit too busy for my taste. Not that it has to be completely clean....but the animal is really big in frame and the photographs needs some point of rest here...and with all those branches it isn't quite working for me.

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    Roger,
    Good to know that you had taken the 5DII with you on the trip. It is really a big deal to crop the image and still be left with 12 megapixels.

    I am amazed that in such a cluttered habitat, you were still auto focussing and got it right. Challenging light. The eye is in the clear and lighted. That makes all the difference to this image. Look forward to your other images.

    Cheers,
    Sabyasachi

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    Eye is nice and sharp but for me there's too many sticks crossing the face/body. The two bright green ones really stand out to me. Nice detail/texture in the body fur.

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