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    After devouring a springbok between them, this female and her subadult male cub looked at each other before standing up and looking at the expectant jackals nearby. I took this image as they were looking at each other, prior to them moving away into Botswana from South Africa.
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    Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII
    Canon EF 500mm f4 LUIS
    Canon EF 2.0 II extender
    Aperture f8
    Shutter speed: 1/500
    IS0 400
    RAW file processed in ACR and CS5.
    Any comments and solutions welcome.

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    Mark - I like the comp with their poses and the carcass between them. Pleasing bg too. I can't comment on color b/c on my uncalibrated work monitor. Is this full frame? It feels a little tight all around but particularly on the lhs.

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    I may go for more tight frame ( If this is FF ) but all in all excellent image
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    The red of the carcass is very rich against the rest of the image which is all a similar tone. Give the image quite a different feel. Would agree with both Rachel and Harshad that going wider would give a bit more room, but a tighter crop would be interesting as well.

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    Hi Mark, perhaps without the extender might have given you a better image, allowing more BKG/setting in which to place these two and options for cropping, as I too, feel it's a bit cramped? Personally I also find the 'yellow' a little too over powering, plus have you done any work on the left Cheetah's head ie saturation, looks odd compared to the body and other Cheetah? Looks like a little ghosting on the LH Cheetahs chest too, follow the contour down to the front leg, or it might be an old pair of eyes.

    Just wonder, dropping the red, yellow & black within those two colours as an adjustment layer brings it back a bit, WDYT? Probably somewhere between the two.

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    Mark, great sighting and POV...I fully agree with Steve, shooting without the extender will lean a lot more 'context' to this image, but then again I love leaving lots of space in my images . Steve also raised some valid points on the colours and I notice halos all around the cheetahs, probably from S/H adjustments...

    I am in a bit of a creative mood, and the POV and setting made me think of doing B&W conversion here...let me know what you think, like I said this was just me fooling around
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    Hey Morkel good call IMHO, as this addresses some of the issues, however the ribcage which plays a big part in the image then becomes a little lost I feel?

    Certainly I feel it all gives Mark some avenues to explore.
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    Hi all,
    Thanks for all the comments.
    Having read both Steve and Morkels comments I would tend to do a black and white conversion of the image as in Morkels repost, it actually looks so much better.
    Thanks Morkel for your input and repost,
    Mark.

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