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You caught this leopard in some sweet light. The tree is nice and i like the pose.
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Hi Dumay, sweet lighting and what a moment. Do you have any more images where squirrel is closer to the leopard?
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Thanks for the comments...
Jay unfortunately I have no images of the Squirrel included. I assume it went to hide in one of the crevices of the dead tree by that time.
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Love this exciting magical image. As said the light looks.....as good as it gets. Such a pity you dident get the entire squirrel in the frame
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That is some shot Dumay - well caught, I would have been over the moon with a shot like this!!
It is easy enough to neutralise the colour cast using the dropper tool in ACR or LR or indeed DPP, trouble is you can loose almost all the yellow glow. You could selectively reduce the saturation of the sky if so inclined. That said the image is very clean and beautifully detailed - congratulations.
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Oh crap...It's the first time I have seen the Squirrel....LOL. Don't I feel pretty silly.
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Hey I didn't until Basil mentioned it!!
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Whoa Dumay, this is a good action shot with the leopard in air and the squirrel at the top edge upside down! Nice captured!!
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Love this, lovely light....Fantastic pose on the leopard, the tree looks good to. Beautiful image.
Will
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This is an excellent frame, bud! Well timed, composed. Agree on slightly overdoing saturation - Gabriela's repost fixed that nicely.
I feel the exposure is slightly under - think about when photographing birds-in-flight against blue sky: you need to overexpose to compensate for the amount of blue sky which the camera will underexpose for. Not much here, maybe +2/3 would look great, you can do it in post of course.
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Thanks for the comments everyone.
Gabriela, I like what you have done. The tree I suppose is a little distracting. You have cleaned it up nicely. The tones you achieved are pretty good as well.
I suppose I never considered cloning the tree or lightening the image.
Morkel, I actually took the saturation down on the RAW file....not up. That was a first for me.
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Dumay, this is a fantastic frame, loved the action and you have done exceedingly well to get this frame. Gabriela's RP looks very nice in terms of colours, though , I liked the colours in your OP as well.
Khwai turned out to be a great place for me as well when it came to Leopard sightings .
Very nicely done. TFS !
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Hi Dumay, nice capture and I like the warm golden light, but the blue is too OTT for me in the OP unless you shot with a CPL filter. Being side on you were OK with f/4 but think you would have runout of DoF if you shot at another angle.
It is easy enough to neutralise the colour cast using the dropper tool in ACR or LR or indeed DPP, trouble is you can loose almost all the yellow glow.
Jon, you either let Adobe do things for you, or... you take control and be the creator, but the first step has to be to change the Camera colour within the Raw process and NOT let Adobe colour manage as you know.