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Canon EOS 5D Mark II

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 500 Shutter 1/1000

upload_date

Aug, 2014

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Awards

Chatter Award

Zenith Award

Top Shot Award 21

Legendary Award

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Superb Composition

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Absolute Masterpiece

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Top Choice

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Magnificent Capture

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Outstanding Creativity

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Peer Award

+26

Superior Skill

+14

All Star

+11

Genius

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Categories

Animals

Awesome!

Thank you Snezana

So content!

Thank you annruth

Beautiful portrait of the King who deserves his rest. Congratulations on being Featured.

Thank you AlanJakarta

excellent capture

Thank you vojce

What a great capture of this beast!!!! Well done!

Thank you Anba

Great capture!

Thank you BRIN

damn amazing!!
congrats on getting featured

Thank you amankadwasra

Cool looking, beautiful King.....terrific capture. Congrats on the feature.

Thank you akhtarkhan

Wow!

Thank you katherinecarter

Superb!!Congrats!

Thank you joecas

Magnificent portrait, congratulations.

Thank you Barniegoog

PRO+

Magnificent animal, beautiful portrait. Congratulations on being featured!

Thank you MaryAnne306

Beautiful capture.Congrats!

Thank you iceman2

Premium

great shot !

Thank you gondmagdi

Platinum

Simply stunning! Gorgeous lion, gorgeous shot! Congrats on being featured!

Thank you rmr731

Absolutely magnificent animal, congrats on getting featured...

Thank you Soumyadeep

A wonderful moment with The Lion. Love the concentrated peace. Where was the photo taken?

Thank you Storycatcher this was captured at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Doncaster, England

What an amazing shot! I love his eyes!

Thank you janknight

huge lion ,,, amazing shot,,

Thank you noahshoaib

Great capture--love the detail!

Thank you jrhalphen

Platinum

Magnificent!! Congratulations on the feature! Well deserved!!!

Thank you jerzgrl51

Ultimate

Great job, fantastic capture.

Thank you trista7510

Platinum

He is beautiful - great shot and congrats on your feature.

Thank you SusiStroud

Absolutely majestic!

Thank you Photobaaz

Platinum

So Majestic!! Congratulations!!!

Thank you kkat

Beautiful capture, I love his eyes.

Thank you Roussou

So deep in thought - so regal! Great shot

Thank you dorothypierini-rodgers

Awesome capture! Very cool look of this lion

Thank you mmarriuss

Beautiful wildlife capture.

Thank you SherranAndersen

outstanding .. congratulations !!

Thank you Kazza60

Amazing subject and photo!

Thank you cristinafranga

Wonderful face !!!

Thank you oldgal

Platinum

Congratulations on your award. I would love it if submitted this into my Large Cat Wild Kingdom project on here. It is really beautiful.

Thank you Debbie I can do that for you, let me go and see

Platinum

Thank you for submitting this into my project.

Your welcome Debbie

Wonderful capture! What a beauty he is

Thank you dkvart1

Beautiful

Thank you PHOTOSUE

Terrific shot.

Thank you tinstoy

He is magnificent!

Thank you Shulie1

Outstanding great light and details , voted also !

Thank you so much carlosramos

Love the Rule of Thirds composition. Wonderful detail and sharper than tacks, face and eyes. Beautiful color. That camera must've cost over $30 U.S., :-).

Thank you Certo

Platinum

You talk about the king of beast; just look at that pose. You must have had a really long lens focal length to get a shot like this. Look at that face; the deadly look in his eyes. Great shot man, great shot! Congrats on the feature.

Thank you michaeltillman, yes it was shot at 400mm

Aaamaaazing!!!

Thank you Michell

wow

Thank you joshrioux

WOW

Thank you babyluvsu

Thank you everyone for all the nice comments

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Behind The Lens

Location

This beautiful Lion was photographed at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, the park is located just outside Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in England Lion Country was opened in May 2010, and houses a pride of thirteen African lions, all of which came from Oradea Zoological Garden in Romania. And this Male is in prime condition!

Time

I decided to go and do a late visit to the park in the Month of November, this is a quite time for the park and most visitors are done at this time of the year I arrived at the park around 15:30 in the late afternoon for the purpose of photographing big cats, with no children running around and limited people about, this was a golden opportunity

Lighting

The weather was overcast with plenty of cloud in the sky simply perfect for this shot, this gave me a massive soft-box to defuse the remaining light for the day The sun had started to drop nicely due to the time of day, this works well for the lions due to them being night feeders, this is when they start to come to life, sleep time is over which is what I was waiting for

Equipment

I was using a Canon 5D Mark II with a Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Lens Due to not having a tripod with me at the time, this was shot hand held leaning the camera on top of a flat post with a small beanbag under for grip, this works well if you bed the camera into the beanbag Captured at 1/1000 f/5.6 ISO 500 shot at 400 mm

Inspiration

I love wildlife photography and my favorite is the big cat's This male lion caught my attention with its facial expressions, wide awake and deadly inquisitive to what I was doing just stand there and making very little movement, the lion was watching me watching him I very slowly set up my camera on the post, the 100-400 was already attached

Editing

I tend to use Photoshop CS5 for my post processing work, The only work I did here was a small adjustment to the highlights and shadows sliders, lower the saturation a touch

In my camera bag

Canon 5D Mark II and the Canon 500D Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L USM Lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 Prime Lens Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM Lens Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS USM Lens Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Lens Spare memory cards and charged batteries, shutter release cable, polarizing filter Lightweight waterproof jacket and trousers, hat, flashlight, small beanbag

Feedback

Yes be very quite, take your time and most of all be very patient, set up your equipment and wait, if you don't get the shot you want keep going back to the same spot until you succeed Wild Animals never do what you want them to do, you need to gain there trust

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