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    Hello everyone. Thank you for your comments and suggestions to my previous post , as always much appreciated.

    Posting an image of Tiger after a while.

    Took this image in 2019 in the month of Nov. Now this female is all grown up and is beginning to carve out new territories for her. Not been able to see a Tiger in the wild since dec of 2019 and it seems 2020 will draw a blank.

    PSCC 2020, DPP 4.12, WB, curves, selective colour, hue/vib/sat, cloned out a tree trunk emerging right behind the tiger's back, cropped from top and bottom, sharpened the subject, one rnd of NR.

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

    ss 1/5000, f/5.6, iso 3200.

    Looking forward for your comments and suggestions, be it of any nature.

    Haseeb.

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    Oh I really like the facial expression, she could almost see straight down your lens and see you! Possibly you could have cropped tighter but I like the loose crop, the bushes add context. Colours good.... those eyes whoaa!!

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    Hi Haseeb, shows you always need to be always ready, never switch it off, just let the camera go to sleep, it boots up quicker. Now it might just be the MB pro, but it looks a bit flat, irrespective of the RP having more separation between subject & habitat would be good. DoF looks OK and I think 1/5000 isn't excessive here because you froze the moment and the ISO is easily within reason, is this ETTR? Cloning on the road in front of the subject needs to be better.

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    A lovely shot Haseeb. I like the composition and the gaze with tail up. Good PP work and Steve has given some good insight. Hopefully we will make it up in 2021 in Bandhavgarh.

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    Thank you Jon, Steve and Doc, much appreciated.

    @ Steve-- not on the correct monitor to judge your RP but I feel your RP is in the correct direction.

    No cloning done in front of the subject, just removed tyre tracks on either side of it.

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    No cloning done in front of the subject, just removed tyre tracks on either side of it.
    OK, so there was a 'manipulation', that's what I can see Haseeb, two vertical lines.
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    My bad, I forgot to mention that in the intro.

    but those two vertical lines were there in the original capture.

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    Lovely, fun, mischievous, gorgeous young tigress! One can find so many words to describe her, love the playful pose and those eyes looking right at you, almost as if saying 'catch me if you can Haseeb, have you enough shutter speed? '

    You should have shared this image long ago, it's awesome. Great techs and tiger is tack sharp with good detail.

    WB/colours do look better in Steve's RP. I would crop a tad from the RHS if this were mine...but I suppose you wanted to include the little plant, so it can stay

    Enjoyed this, very much. Keep looking through those folders, Haseeb...

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    Gabriela Plesea

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    Love the pose and that pose. Nice to see the tiger out in the open. The title says it all.

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    Thank you Gabriela and John, much appreciated.

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    Really like the look of young innocence on this female Haseeb, your RP has nailed it, but would lose the branch on the RHS, and re PP those tyre tracks, an easy fix, nicely seen indeed.

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