A Male Tiger - My 1st on BPN.

[Sagar Gosavi]

Camera Body - Nikon D7000
Lens - Nikkor 400mm F2.8 VR
Exposure - 1/160 sec
Aperture - F2.8
ISO - 400
Exp. Compensation - -1/3EV

Photograph is taken at Ranthambhore, Rajasthan India.
This is a Male tiger walking into the frame.


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5063/5891907754_6fa7181811_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sega_s_g/5891907754/)
DSC_03591_8by6BPN2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sega_s_g/5891907754/) by Sagar Gosavi - Alchemist (http://www.flickr.com/people/sega_s_g/), on Flickr

Cheers,
Sagar Gosavi

[Harshad Barve]

Welcome to wildlife forum Sagar
amazing image to start with , lovely walk in pose and nice eye contact too , I may think of warming up image little bit
TFS

[Hilary Hann]

Welcome Sagar, always love to see tigers. Agree with Harshad, nice eye contact and I like the way the tigers is really connected to the viewer.

[Steve Kaluski]

Welcome to the Forum Sagar and as Harshad said, a good opening image.

Regarding the image I like the head on approach, jaw slightly open and eye contact. I am not sure if the image needs a hint of warmth, based on the eyes & tongue colour, but my question is, have you made any alterations to the BG ie any blurring as I feel it does not look right? I think you are trying to isolate the Tiger if you have, but all the legs have some detail, but surrounding area ie road, shrubs etc are all blurred hence my question as it does look odd to me, but then I could well be wrong. :S3:

Certainly I think if you can, keep your shutter speed higher and have more DOF you will have more depth & detail, but obviously conditions dictate.

TFS
Steve
PS Can you add the route for me next time in your info ie route 1 or 3 or 4... as I know the area and it's always good to put these awesome guys in context with their location

[Morkel Erasmus]

A big hearty welcome from me too Sagar...

A gorgeous first image, and good to see some results from the D7000 coupled with a prime Nikkor lens too. :bg3:

I agree with the request from Harshad for a slight warming up overall, and I too am curious about the amount of blurring as Steve noted. I can imagine that with the f2.8 you used DOF would be quite shallow, but it does seem the hind legs aren't blurred or out-of-focus as much as the piece of road/bush in the background that corresponds (apparently) with it in terms of DOF? :2

[Sagar Gosavi]

Thanks friends for all your suggestions.

Steve, Yes its F2.8 which made that blur as no blurring done in PP. Yes but due to that, Hind legs are Out of focus :( But as it was late evening.. took help from F2.8 :) the Blur of the Bushes and Road is also due to shallow DOF.

Harshad & Morkel,
I corrected Color cast in PP and i guess thats where i went on overdoing it and making it cooler ..
Here correct the color cast as per your suggestions ..

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5239/5897611188_7db4fc7ba2_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sega_s_g/5897611188/)
DSC_03591_BPN_Mod (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sega_s_g/5897611188/) by Sagar Gosavi - Alchemist (http://www.flickr.com/people/sega_s_g/), on Flickr


Hope this works. Thanks for all your time and suggestions. Its great to learn from all of you here. :)
Thanks & Cheers,
Sagar Gosavi

[Sid Garige]

Welcome Sagar. Excellent shooting angle and very nice eye contact.