Currant Pandharponi Cubs,
Pandharponi Area, Tadoba, Nagpur, India.
Feb 2016. These Cubs are incredible, they are playful, joy and very Bold. This particular cub is female Cub who is small by the size among all the siblings and one of the most naughty one in pandharponi family. She always started the fight with the siblings and her mother. She is also an explorer who tries different things. In this image the female cub tries to go pass on that broken log but she stuck in middle because log is submerge half in water. She did not know how to go back and start calling her mother finally her mother did not came for her help and she felt in the water….
This the long distance shot more then 100+ feet’s , handheld...... Canon 1Dx,
Canon 500mm +1.4 TC,
F5.6,
Iso 800 Enjoy……
Hi Ritesh - What a great sighting and moment captured. The comp works very well and sharpness looks good. I'm not sure what time you took this but there's a bit of an overall red cast that I would consider reducing if it were mine. In an ideal world the head would not intersect with the log in the bg but from what I understand of tiger sightings it is difficult to reposition or move around. I hope you have some of her in the water that you'll share.
Wonderful capture of this Striped Explorer, here she is showing off her agility and balance! She may be small in comparison to her siblings, but I just love her "oversized" paws, she has lots of "growing up" to do:)
One reason I like this frame is, you included a great deal of the environment. Also, it is well exposed, generally well processed and the tiger looks sharp to me. One small nit: it looks as if you added a photo filter to the entire scene. Perhaps you didn't, you might have just played with WB and warmed this up too much. This is worth looking into IMO, for it is such a special image. I also notice you forgot to mention Shutter Speed - kindly specify, if you do not mind:)
Love your "naughty" subject, she is absolutely gorgeous! And just like Rachel, I am hoping to see more of her. I took great delight in viewing your image, please show us some more if you have!
Played a bit with the naughty girl-
Sat over all, masked curve layer with linear contrast, reduced exposure/contrast layer on BG.
Selective resharpening for web.
WDYT?
Love this naughty Cat!
Cool sighting and moment captured here, Ritesh! Love that frantic face she's making...
I think you can end up with an ideal version somewhere between your post and Andre's repost? I'd also look at cropping some off the top if it's not a big crop already?
Wonderful capture of this Striped Explorer, here she is showing off her agility and balance! She may be small in comparison to her siblings, but I just love her "oversized" paws, she has lots of "growing up" to do:)
One reason I like this frame is, you included a great deal of the environment. Also, it is well exposed, generally well processed and the tiger looks sharp to me. One small nit: it looks as if you added a photo filter to the entire scene. Perhaps you didn't, you might have just played with WB and warmed this up too much. This is worth looking into IMO, for it is such a special image. I also notice you forgot to mention Shutter Speed - kindly specify, if you do not mind:)
Love your "naughty" subject, she is absolutely gorgeous! And just like Rachel, I am hoping to see more of her. I took great delight in viewing your image, please show us some more if you have!
Kind regards,
Hello Gabriela ....
Thanks for your kind words .... This image I took at around 5.30 to 6 pm so the light is golden overall that why can see the red across the frame ....
The SS is 1/2000 ....
I have ton of images of these Cubs with there mothers of without her ..... I will post them soon.
I am visiting this park from last 6 years every year four to five times for 10 to 16 safaris every time .... So I had great collection of the images of this area and park ... I had her mother also as cub in my collection all that i will shear soon....
Played a bit with the naughty girl-
Sat over all, masked curve layer with linear contrast, reduced exposure/contrast layer on BG.
Selective resharpening for web.
WDYT?
Love this naughty Cat!
Thanks Andre ..... Love the RP here ....
Thanks for your effort I love the sharpening in you image ..... Thanks for you time.
Cool sighting and moment captured here, Ritesh! Love that frantic face she's making...
I think you can end up with an ideal version somewhere between your post and Andre's repost? I'd also look at cropping some off the top if it's not a big crop already?
First of all thanks for your comments
Yes it big crop already. I think it's 20% of full image. I don't have full image now with me but I had screen shot of full image for the refrance.
Hi Ritesh - AGree with has been said above , I loved the playful nature of this cub and since i am quite familiar with this place bein just 90 kms from my place i too used to visit this park quite frequently until last year when i decided to explore new areas but what i am trying to say is , the Pandharpauni area is usually full of vehicles during tiger sighting and it would have been difficult for you to reposition your vehicle in order to get some better position to avoid that log behind her face . But over all this is a fine image .
I liked your original file uncropped as i should say , the inclusion of all the settings and also another cub in water makes it look more appealing to me . I would love to see the uncropped version posted in this forum .