It's a bit dark because that helps hide the fence effect that obscured the leopards face. I couldn't get any closer to the fence to shoot between the wires unfortunately.
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i used to have alot of problems resizing and retaining exif for flickr. i now use faststone image resizer and its absolutely brilliant. it resizes to what i want and adds the simple border. it can even add watermark if you so inclined.
its very simple to use, fast as all buggery and its free.
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Funny I know better nowadays and always check the histogram so I don't know how I got the original sky so wrong.
Is there a specific thing wrong with the sky so I can learn better if I do replace a sky again?
Capturing the bright sky is one of the hardest things to do IMO, so don't beat yourself up over it. Usually I just try to capture it in-camera, and have the best luck using circular polarizers and/or graduated neutral density filters.
But when I do play with replacing a sky, I really pay attention to what the sky looked like in the shot and try to mimic it as much as possible. I consider, what time of day was it, what direction was the light coming from, how cloudy was it? So in your shot, the lighting looks so even, I suspect it was nearly uniformly overcast? Is that right? If so, I'd try to find a shot of an overcast sky (maybe from another shot that day) and bring in just a little hint of it. Just a little detail. Because if you do too much, it's just going to look fake. HTH
I took a pic during a bright part of the day. I found that it was dang near impossible to get both the sky and the terrain in the detail that I wanted, so what I did was just mount the camera to a tripod and take one shot for the sky, the other for the terrain just modifying the aperture and shutter speed- should be a pretty easy merge once I get around to it.
Nikon D40
-new glass-
- 18-55mm Kit lens
-old glass, all the old school manual focus stuff -
55mm Micro-Nikkor 3.5
50mm Nikkor 1.8
24mm Nikkor-N.C 2.8
90mm Tamron SP 2.5
105mm Nikkor 2.5
200mm Nikkor 4.0
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