This Image is taken around Tadoba Tiger Reserve. The Light was disappearing quickly and so as our chances of sighting this little one. This was probably the first time this cub along with its 3 other siblings came out in the open and had an encounter the humans. They were feeding on the Sambar Deer kill for the past 3 days before it came to the notice of the locals around their. The mother was being extra cautious with the cubs because of our presence and so we decided to maintain a safe distance to make their crossing to the other side of the dirt track a stress free experience and good one with the humans. But this little one was acting over cautious and decided to lie down on the dirt track and in the process allowing it s3 other siblings to cross over on to the other side safely. The mother entered to give this one a little push before tagging along all the four safely into the forest.
Camera Details : Canon 5D MK 3 , 300mm f2.8 IS II with 2 x T.C. , Cropped 50 % inspite of being on a T.C., noise reduction, sharpening, levels,
Tv: 1/200,Av: f 7.1, iso: 3200
All your comments and critiques are most welcome .
Regards,
Haseeb Badar :)
03-01-2015, 07:18 AM
Gabriela Plesea
Hello Haseeb,
A tiger cub! Now, this is something really special and I am really envious:)
First of all, I really appreciate you took the trouble to tell us more about the characters, this read made me realise once again how special tigers are and how rare those sightings.
The cub looks playful and about to leap - Mom's concern is getting him to safety and you were so considerate to keep a safe distance and allow them to interact without stress (vehicle movement, shutter noise, etc) - I wish all photographers would behave in the same fashion! I will move off the topic for a moment to tell you we had an opportunity to take images of a brown hyena on our last trip to the Kalahari but happened to be driving behind our subject as she was heading for the waterhole; she was extremely skittish and kept looking around as she walked, hesitant to go and drink. We would have captured a few images as she eventually drank, but agreed to stop the vehicle at some distance from the waterhole, behind some bushes where she could not see us - we so wanted her to have her morning drink! Waited quietly until she finished (and barely had a glimpse of her through the foliage), would have loved a few images in sweet morning light but thought it was more important not to stress the animal.
Back to your image - you handled the lighting conditions quite well but I wish you pushed the ISO more and dealt with the noise later:) Your FP is obviously on the cub - I gather you went for 7.1 to include the mother coming in? Have you perhaps got more images taken at lower aperture? I would like to see them. Should you decide to process more from this sighting, try a pano crop as well:S3:
All in all a special sighting and I think there's more you can do to improve this image, not sure where you applied NR but maybe too much in some places and please take care with Levels (be gentle with the sliders!) I am enjoying your posts very much and cannot wait for more:cheers:
Kind regards,
03-01-2015, 09:05 AM
Rachel Hollander
Hi Haseeb - Always exciting to see a cub, especially a wild tiger cub. I agree with your ethics of staying back and not stressing the animals. Unfortunately, it meant shooting from a good distance away and then a substantial crop that has affected IQ. I think I would have also opened up the aperture a bit to get more ss. Btw your image does not have an embedded profile so there may be a color shift depending on the browser. It's best to embed sRGB for viewing on the web.
TFS,
Rachel
03-01-2015, 12:19 PM
haseeb badar
Thanks Gabriela and Rachel ! It really helps here when you get some constructive comments thanks once again it will really help me to develop the art with members like u ppl in this forum :)
03-01-2015, 08:10 PM
dankearl
Big bonus for a photo and sighting of a cub.
TFS
03-02-2015, 02:04 AM
Dumay de Boulle
Thanks for sharing this amazing sighting. I like the pose of the cub. I just feel the half cut off Tiger is not ideal. Was it possible to wait till the full Tiger was in the image or closer. That may have strengthened the image...I am just not sure what happened after the this image.
03-02-2015, 03:02 AM
haseeb badar
Thank u Dan and Dumay .
The tigress never entered the frame fully with her face towards the cam, she turned towards the cub offering us the back portion to view :) . Will share those frames also
03-02-2015, 12:07 PM
Andreas Liedmann
Hi Haseeb well a great sighting you captured , always great to see Tiger alive and even more to see her with some cubs .
Technical issues already covered above in which i agree .
Keep them coming .
TFS Andreas
03-05-2015, 10:35 AM
Steve Kaluski
Hi Haseeb, I like the way the road leads you to the cub. Would agree with Dumay about having more of the adult in, but I don't think you need all, just a bit more to convey walking into frame. If you have applied NR just make sure you do not apply it to the adult. If you have the new 300 & 2x, IQ will be far better than the old version especially with the 5D. Unless you really upped the ISO I doubt you would get much more from also increasing the DoF? Remember, all that a converter does is magnify, so in low light/SS it will amplify any slight movement in the kit, so make sure you are using something to lock down your kit (using a clamp & ball head on the rail of a jeep/gypsy), or at least steady things via a bean bag.