zoological Royal Tigress

Tuhin - 

Great timing. Nicely done. Congrats.

Peter.

Technically it's not a great picture but it certainly does capture the power of the tiger, emphasizing its immense latent energy like a spring under tension. I hope this was taken with a long lens because he looks like he could shorten the distance between you with just a couple of bounds.

Thanks P Staadecker , Jack ,

 

This was captured with tamron 150-600 on a DX body set at maximum focal length , shutter speed 1/500 , aperture of 8 , ISO 3200 , hand held with VC on . I was standing on an open fungle safari jeep. This was in Bandhavgarh national park , Madhya Pradesh , India. It was 5PM , getting close to sunset . It was an open area , surrounded by tall deciduous trees . I was some 20 mts away from the tigress and this was the closest I could get from that position . 

Correction,  f9 and not f8.

Oops  .. jungle and not fungle :) 

 

This also emphasizes the usefulness of DX bodies in wildlife . It was not possible for the jeep to move closer . Once a tiger is sighted ,everything quiet . Had I used a FX body , I could not have got this close . I dislike cropping heavily .

Tigress at Bandhavgarh national park , Madhya Pradesh , India .. thanks.

Cheers

 

PDE

Thanks Pierre , I could not have taken a complete close up of face from my position and I do not like to crop that deep . The closeness is enough to see the water droplets and the animal in the out of focus background , its natural habitat . This is exactly what I wanted to capture .

I'm always intimidated by the stare of a big cat and this is no exception.  However, I have to agree with Jack that the photo needs some work.  The white balance seems to have been affected by the late afternoon (?) light and has a blue tint.  I've attached an example of my thoughts and don't want to insinuate that it's any better, just another way of looking at this.  Good work to capture this magnificent cat... Mike

Insinuate ?! Please feel free to comment . I was trying to figure what wrong  could I have done ! I agree with you that white balance was off a bit considering it was not sunlit area . However , more than the white balance , I am more bothered about the background . It seems there was movement in the vegetation due to wind . If I remember correctly , wind was not blowing then . Every thing was in a standstill mode .

 

This is a new lens to me . In that trip , I got few other pictures which shows  this weird nature of the background . I am uploading one photo to highlight my point . Initially , I thought this to be "onion bokeh " effect , however it seems not be that .

 

However , such photos have been few in number , others have I have not seen that effect like , /photodb/photo?photo_id=18176378

or this one ,

 /photodb/photo?photo_id=18198235

Thanks Mike .

Hope you all will be happy with this one -

or this one ,

please read as " brightly sunlit area " ..

Rajkanyai batey :)

Amazing. Well done.

Thanks Rajkanye  and Julian , glad you all like it.