Monochrome Stripes !

[haseeb badar]

Hello everyone .

Thank you for all your comments and suggestions to my previous post , much appreciated.

Took this image last year in a relatively unknown park in India. This female , known as the Pauni female or T4 was having 4 cubs at that point of time and sightings were pretty good. So I went there with my wife one fine morning and were quite lucky to see the whole family. This is one particular moment when the female came out in the open and gave us a nice look. Lighting was pretty tricky due to the dense canopy so there are strong HLS and shadows , hence decided to go BW .

DPP 4.8, PSCC 2018 v20, conversion, levels, shadows , sharpening , removed few bright spots in the BKG.

Canon 1DX MK II, Canon 500mm f4 IS II, Self driven car, bean bag.

ss 1/2000, f/5.6, iso 4000.

Cheers ,
Haseeb.

[greg cowle]

I like what you have done here, you have a full range of deep black through strong white, and it works like a vignette given she came into a light patch. The only thing I don't like so much is the shadow of her head, but even there it shows off the whiskers.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Hi Haseeb, excellent use of the lighting and the idea to go B&W. It certainly works here. I like the HA, the sharpness and toning. Techs look good too. Nicely done.

[Gabriela Plesea]

I like this too, Haseeb, the B/W adds a kind of mystery to the scene.

Shadow is unfortunate but nothing you could do about it - I had the same issue with my bushbuck image :)

Nice framing. Lovely textures, tonal range is there and conversion is great. I especially like the eye contact.
This tigress is so beautiful, so powerful. Awesome sighting well captured

Kind regards,

[John Mack]

Looks like a pretty big tiger. The black and white works very well. The tiger really stands out against all that black.

[haseeb badar]

Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions, as always much appreciated.

I too would have liked the shadow to be not so prominent but the lighting was such that.

Will post a colour version also from the same sighting.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Wow Haseeb that is impressive I really like it. The pose is so attention grabbing, I have gone back to the image several times already - great shot!! Some of the shadow is less than ideal but hey that's how it was and I would be proud to have that image in my collection.

[haseeb badar]

Thank you Jonathan for your kind words .

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Haseeb, Dicky has a very similar image about 6ft x 4ft on the wall, but in colour - great minds.

I quite like the conversion, but would loose some of the brighter HL's at the rear and at the foot, too distracting I think.

TFS
Steve

[haseeb badar]

@ Steve - “ Great Minds”

I will post a colour image from this same sighting.

In the meantime we are waiting for the Ranthambore images .

[Steve Kaluski]

In the meantime we are waiting for the Ranthambore images .

Haseeb, I got the 3.20am flight from Delhi this morning to London HTR arrived at 7.15am give me a chance, I'm shattered, it was full 12 hours on and at times very intense.

I will try and process one, but not a Tiger.

[haseeb badar]

Hahaha , rest well ! Must be a tiring journey and the effect of dust must still be there .

[Steve Kaluski]

Must be a tiring journey and the effect of dust must still be there .

Less so Haseeb, flying isn't a problem, it was just so full on from the 5.15am rise to hitting the hay around 10.30pm, but we all developed coughs from the dust.