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Hi Sadananda - Great story and beautiful light. I wish you had pressed the shutter a little bit earlier so the foliage on the left wasn't on the face. You probably would have needed to zoom out to 200 to still get the whole tiger and leave enough room for it to move into. Additionally, I would have raised the ISO to get more ss. 1/250 is slow for a moving animal and you can see the movement in the rear. Also a higher ss will help with any vibration from the vehicle or movement of other occupants of the vehicle. Of course, all of this is easy to say in hindsight but it sounds like this was a very exciting sighting. Just something to think about next time. Do you have any images of when it looked at you?
TFS,
Rachel
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Stunning cat in stunning light and love the story, felt like I was right there with you!
I agree with Rachel's crit - good to evaluate these in hindsight as next time you may just remember one or two things through the adrenaline of the moment
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What an awesome sighting Sadananda, I envy you!
I don't mind the slight blur from the hind leg, in fact I like it because it suggests movement:) I just think that low shutter speed was rather risky as your subject was moving, perhaps you should have upped the ISO? The light is beautiful, so is your subject, you got away with 1/250s this time but I would love it if you experimented more with your settings:)
Love to see the size and strength of this impressive tiger, I truly enjoyed viewing, hope you share more of these special sightings with us!
Kind regards,
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Thanks to everyone.
Yes I agree that ISO had to be bumped up for a sure shot. In the heat of that moment and such a sighting I totally missed this ISO and composition part and it was so sudden that I couldn't look into my camera for the settings. Thanks for your suggestions hope to improve upon presence of mind with camera settings while watching these beauties ...
@Rachel .. No I missed the click when it looked at us, because the moment I lifted the lens it turned away and started walking through the bushes :(