Cheetah In Evening Light

[ramesh anantharaman]

Canon EOS ID Mk IV, 500mm f/4, 1.4x T.C., @700mm, f/5.6, 1/200sec, ISO-1600.

[Mark Wiseman]

Wonderful image Ramesh, the lip cought by the canine tooth gives a strange lip posture. I would probably increase the warmth of the image as it appears a little cold. Maybe it was overcast???? Great detail, Well done.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Lovely detail and great BG...Looks great for the low light. I would take a touch off the top if it were mine!

[Marina Scarr]

Awesome grimace on this guy. Agree on just a tad off the top. Warmth looks good to me.

[Harshad Barve]

Love the pose Ramesha ,great details and BG here, sooper shot
TFS

[ramesh anantharaman]

Thanks Marina, Mark, Dumay and harshad. Did try to implement the suggestions and found this to be real good. Hope you find it the same.

[Marc Mol]

Love the look of disdain here Ramesh, any reason why you didn't stop down with the 1.4tc? S/S perhaps?
RP suits also.
TFS

[Jason Hurst]

Great portrait.

I'd name him (if it in fact IS a male)...ELVIS, because of the lip curl.

[Morkel Erasmus]

The repost really has taken the image to another level. Love the look and you did well with the settings used! Try and dodge the nose a bit to bring back some detail?

Two options in the field would have been:
1. quickly take off the TC, which would give you increased sharpness and DOF at f5.6
2. bump ISO to 2000 or 3200, make sure you push exposure to the right of the histogram, thereby increasing SS a bit

Still - nicely done here. Love the lip-curl.

[Chris Baker]

Very nice indeed, repost big improvement, love the expression. TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Ramesh, great repost, and I like how you have focussed on the head - great detail there. Love the BG too.

[DanWalters]

Gorgeous light and great color on the repost. Really like that sneer!