These lions lying in the road in the rain in the Northern Kruger Park offered me some great photo opps for close-ups. We spent an hour with them on our own before they dashed into the bush...moments later another visitor pulled up and asked why we were stopped...gotta love sightings like these.
Techs:
Nikon D300s with 200-400mm VR @ 400mm
f4.0 @ 1/200 SS @ ISO-400
Full frame
Beautiful image, as usual. It must be nice to have them cooperate like this. On my monitor the image looks like it has a slight greenish cast and looks a bit washed out (pun intended). Easily corrected, though. Cheers.
Great shot, Morkel. I have two questions: first, is it possible to include a bit more more to the right, while keeping the tight feel you have here, so there is some area for the subject to look into? Second, how would you feel about cropping out the one wild (excuse the pun) hair over the left eye? i think it could be a bit processed a bit deeper, as well, as noted by the other commentators. Well done!
I like the tight comp with just a hint of the ears. Great, intense look from those eyes. I prefer the OP, seems to more closely represent the rainy conditions you described.