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    After claiming my many daytime sightings I couldn't not post a picture.
    Crazy busy here at the moment, just came across this old one.

    I like it because this picture tells more then just a leopard. She was hunting in the morning, and at the time this picture was taken she was looking at some impalas in the distance. Maybe I should have gone for a higher f to get more depth of field but amount of light didn't allow it.

    This was taken with Canon 30D, ISO 400, Sigma 150-500mm OS @ 150mm, F6.3, 1/200, handheld.
    Raw image re-processed in LR3, scaled down to 800 pixels wide so I could save it at a reasonable quality.



    We watched her disappear in the bush and waited about 45 min for her to stalk the impalas. The impalas never saw her coming. Suddenly she dashed across the road and....missed. It was over in a second. Never saw her again that morning, but you have to take your chances.

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    Hi Egil as you say, perhaps shooting at f16 might have helped in the story here, as the subject are the impala (?), however you would probably have had to really crank up the ISO and traded off the quality to a degree. Still a different POV and worth exploring.

    BTW have you tried following my guidelines for saving for web? My web images are from a 60MB+ file straight to 800px without loosing quality. I only mention this from your comment in the text.

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    With my new 7D I would've had no trouble cranking the ISO up to 800 or 1000, but the older 30D is usually already showing noise at 400.
    I did check your guidelines for saving for web. Converted profile to sRGB, then chose 'Optimize to File Size' and set the size to 195 kb (at another site which requires 150 kb I sometimes have trouble when I chose 150 kb and save, when I try to upload it claims the file size is too big and it turns out the image is 152 or 153 kb).
    At 1024 pixels wide the image quality dropped to 56...at 800 pixels it's 70.

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    Egil , I am loving this , will look grand if printed in real huge size , very well seen & done , big congrats
    TFS

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    I also like this and dont min the OOF impalas. Very good story telling image.

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    nice scape Egil...reminding me that I need to visit Zambia someday :)
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