Hello everyone. Thank you for all your comment and suggestions to my previous post, as always much appreciated.
Continuing with another leopard scape, this time it is a day time scene. We sighted this leopard from quite a distance, well spotted by our guide while it was asleep. After sometime, the Leopard must have noted some activity from an Ostrich and got quickly in his stealth mode. It was all ready to pounce but the Ostrich spotted the cat and ran away. It was a bit of anti climax but none the less some exciting animal behaviour to witness.
DPP 4.12, PSCC 2020, WB, Levels, curves , cloned out some oof vegetation , selective colour, selectively sharpened the Leopard.
A nice setting. Neat to see the leopard tucked into the tree like that. You handled the light and the detail well. A tight shot of just the leopard and the tree would be nice as well.
Hi Haseeb, good call in shooting wide in both senses of the word. Nicely framed and I like the inclusion of the thin branches top right. Have you applied any NR as the grass looks overly smooth, plus there appears to be an artefact of a brush mark on the LHS of the tree, masking? The vignetting of the Blue for me is a little too much, as you didn't have a drop in, for me it just looks a bit pushed, evident on the tree, but just my take. Again there is more in the tree to extract, here you could have tried changing the metering mode.
TFS
Steve
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Full credit for this very nice leopard scape here Haseeb, the poised to pounce pose tells the story nicely.
Agree with Steve about the pushed blue in the sky, as I'm seeing artifacts and noise here, best to have a smoother graduation of colour here than the vignette.I'm guessing you may have used negative clarity on the vegetation?
Regardless these are all easily fixed, really enjoying your creativity of late, keep it up mate.
Love the leopard small in the tree And enjoyed the story behind the image. Framing looks good I find the tree itself to be quite striking, wonderful sighting!
The blue vignette a bit strong in the OP and I personally find it unnecessary altogether, your landscape is lovely as is. Yes to a bit more detail in the tree, maybe lift some shadows and blacks?
Overall a beautiful scene, such a privilege to see this and photograph! I would appreciate seeing more from this trip, if possible
Haseeb, though I am late on this one, I am happy to chip in. The idea is nice, the framing very good and those branches add so much here. I like the small in frame subject about to pounce. Nicely done.