This is my favorite image from my trip to Botswana last year.
rebel XS
100-400mm at 210mm
iso 100
f 8.0
Aperture priority
Cropped by 15% and 1 branch cloned out of right upper hand corner. I used LR3 to sharpen and used adjustment layer to decrease brightness in upper sky and bring back some blue.
Subject distance ~60 feet
Hope you like it.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from







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Love seeing these guys hanging around, you managed to capture a very alert looking stare, did something have his attention? I feel you could warm this up a tad WB wise, exposure looks good. Also I notice the sky in the blue areas seems to have a pixelization pattern in it, this may be from sizing for web.
however, if you wanted to add some blue to that re-post sky you can put both images into the same document, apply a mask over the tree and leopard and show the sky from the first shot. then run a gaussian blur to help smooth out the sky. Also, I noticed you took out the little stick under the leopard and did a re-crop and left the limb in the lower right corner.
The tree certainly has character, and good that you captured him in the open. BTW, when exactly will you be in Cape Town?





