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Kenya 2024: Long grasses, lazy lions, lounging leopards - but where’s the action?

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These images are great@Zubbie15, the low angle stuff my favoured style of photography.

 

Just my opinion, though I think there could be a 25% improvement in the output with a slight change to the post processing. A mix of a more subtle tone curve on the raw conversion, some mid tone adjustments and luminosity masks on the shadows.

 

What aperture are using on your 400mm, I would have expected a slightly more blurred background.

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Thanks for the feedback @Alex The Lion.  I use the 400 wide open at least 95% of the time, I treat aperture almost as "set it and forget it." 

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