Excellent capture. I'd have like to seen the lion facing the camera just a little bit more. Its still an excellent shot. Great background, sky is a really nice color. His face has a couple minor hot spots under his nose, but it would be difficult to darken this down without losing the details in the body. Overall good quality shot 7
I love this shot! I particularly enjoy the contrast between the shadow cast on the lion and the sunlight in it's face (this is due to your wonderful lighting). I also believe that the trees in the background enhance this photo tremendously seems to fill the frame quite nicely. One thing that would add more strength IMO, is to equalize and balance the shot. I feel that the tree on the right mixed with the lion's head tend to overdominate the shot. It just feels ever so slightly heavy on the right. But this is a very, very minor thing and the rest of the elements more than make up for that fact.
I love the beauty of this animal - as you say, "greeting the sun." If the contrasts, or lights vs darks were slightly different it would be a 10, but in my estimation, the photo is still well worth a 9.
From a slightly different angle, this shot would be my favourite.
The contrast between sunlight and shadow is superb, add a plain blue background and the lion`s rear quarter and it`s just about unbeatable.
Beautiful shot, the lion looks so skinny almost unhealthy from this angle but the position he is in is perfect, it screams "king of the jungle" good luck. 8
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