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    We had spent the entire afternoon with this young Leopardess, up and down trees in long grass, eventually as the sun was setting she climbed a termite mound where a Warthog family was living in the flash of an eye she seized this youngster and took her up a nearby tree with the sun setting behind it!
    Not exactly the best circumstances to get a decent image, here she is starting to lift the now dead Warthog before leaving the tree.
    Taken in Kwando concession, Botswana

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    Hi Ken,
    Lovely image. Great detail and eye contact. I would just give it a little more space and not such a tight crop.
    Thanks for sharing and best wishes,
    Mark.

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    Ken - IMHO this is the best image I've seen you post here (or anywhere for that matter ). Very compelling.
    Head-on angle rocks. DOF rocks. Kill being all-in-frame rocks. Eye contact rocks. Story/mood rocks (though probably too gory for some).


    It does seem to be off on colour balance though. Too green. Looked that way to me on 500px too.

    My repost:

    Set droppers in Levels to:
    Blacks: 10,10,10
    Greys: 133,133,133
    Whites: 240,240,240
    (all values R,G,B)
    Chose the darkest shadow and clicked the black dropper on there.
    Clicked the grey dropper on the bark.
    Did some slight desaturating on magenta and red, pulled up yellow just a tad.
    Adjusted midtone brightness by about 5 points brighter.
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    Hey Ken,
    I think this is great too.....but like Morkel......just tweak the greens and it is a winner!

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    Agree with Morkel, one of your best for a while here Ken, love the intense look here on this young girl (almost still a cub?)
    I do see the green cast on your posting, and Morkel's is an improvement, but now still see a magenta cast on his RP. (What calibration tool are you using Morkel?)
    Will be interested to see what colour he sees on his cal monitor of my RP here:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marc Molloy View Post
    Agree with Morkel, one of your best for a while here Ken, love the intense look here on this young girl (almost still a cub?)
    I do see the green cast on your posting, and Morkel's is an improvement, but now still see a magenta cast on his RP. (What calibration tool are you using Morkel?)
    Will be interested to see what colour he sees on his cal monitor of my RP here:
    TFS
    I use a Spyder 3. Just calibrated again this weekend. But it might be my tired eyes not registering it initially, as I do see the magenta in mine now that I've seen your "spot on" repost ...
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    Thanks Morkel

    Yep, Spyder 3 for me also. I'm glad you did see a difference, as it would be my older and tired eyes that were to blame.
    But let's not take the colour cast issue away from Ken's fine image.


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    Ken - I too agree that this is your best I have seen. Great content, eye contact, dof and detail. Color easily adjusted and Mark's works best for me.

    TFS and congrats,
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    Hey Ken,
    Intense, direct image. Marc's repost looks spot on to me. Great frontal (but indirect; good thing) look, and the hanging legs of the warthog lead right to the face. The branch on the left (as viewed) provides a nice sweeping frame edge for the subject. I'd personally consider a little of that darker, OOF bark to fill in the bright spot in the upper right but it certainly doesn't detract from the image.

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    Thanks evertbody, I am amazed.

    Starting with the thorny question of colour, I think this proves that either everybody sees it differently or that the variances in monitors is vast, I get my new NEC Syncmaster hopefully this week.

    Too me mine is the most natural? But perhaps somewhere between Marc's and mine, I will experiment further later as I have many many frames.

    This was probably one of the most exciting sighting I have ever had, but photographically one of the most frustrating. We were keeping a good distance from the Leopard so as not to interfere with any hunt (not something that often occurs).

    We saw the "catch" but were still moving, there was no time to get the carry up the tree and the light was dreadful. Nevertheless the couple of minutes in the tree gave me some time to try a few settings using as much of the tree as possible to block out the setting sun. I was tempted to go up to ISO 3200 for a higher shutter speed to avoid the hand held jitters but in my excitement I just did not seem to have the time.

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    Lovely image Ken, not much i can say that hasn't already been said, with regards the colour issues i find Marcs to be the better RP.

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    Beautiful image, no nits from me. I think Marc's colour has nailed it, at least on my monitor.

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    Great image Ken but for my taste it a bit to tight. I also like Mark's version, the colours look's more narural TFS

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    Vivaldo,
    The tightness of the image was determined by what was either side, the right side (as viewed) leg was for instance behind a branch.

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    Ken , this is awesome , liked what Marc done with colors , one of your best
    TFS

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