I always found a lot of humor in this picture. The lioness couldn't possibly be more bored. She's not even trying to fake it. I took this picture with a Canon 500mm f/4 telephoto, and it was actually a little too tight. I had to include the whiskers of the male on the left side, so that meant cutting off the ear of the female at the far right. I took this picture in 2007 in Kenya, and had I been using the new Canon 100-500mm lens, I could have zoomed back slightly to include the full width of both lions. To repair the damage, in Photoshop I expanded the image area on the right with Image > canvas size. I then copied and pasted an ear from another image into this one. Because the depth of field of the long lens is shallow, and the head of the lioness was positioned about one or two feet further from the camera, she was slightly soft as I'd focused on the male. I used Topaz Sharpen AI to rectify that. My settings were 1/320, f/9, and 200 ISO. Had I taken this today, I would have used a shutter speed at least 1/800. I was lucky to get a sharp picture given the relatively slow shutter, but with my first digital camera, the Canon 1Ds Mark II, noise was a serious issue. At that time, 1600 ISO was barely usable.
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