Tiger in Habitat - vertical
This is a vertical shot of the same tiger as my previous posting. Photographed in Bandhavgarh National Park, India.
Canon EOS 1D Mark II, Canon EF 400mm f2.8 L IS USM, EF 1.4xII i.e focal length of 560mm, ISO 200, f7.1, 1/20sec, Gitzto GT 3530LS, Wimberly V2 head. Full frame.
Look forward to your comments.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
Last edited by Sabyasachi Patra; 04-11-2009 at 08:50 AM.
I like the image and would be very happy to have it in my collection.
I like the vertical choice in making the image but I do not care for the stick that is coming out of the left ear. The image does look a little flat or desaturated to me. How did you process it?
Here is an alternative to your post. I used color balance and warmed the image to reduce the blue cast, did a light saturation on the tiger, a slight selective sharpening and I removed the stick in the ear. Hope you like it. - JohnOriginally Posted by Sabyasachi Patra
Wonderful scene and terrific to witness it in the wild.
Welcome back, you have been missed :) Hope you had a great time!
I prefer this version to the "in environment" version, and I actually prefer the repost, the added "warmth" adds a lot.
Nicely composed image. The repost is an improvement with the removal of the color cast. How close did you get to this animal?
Like the vertical crop here. Like the removal of the stick and the repost. Still looks like it needs a little contrast or saturation to me.
Hi David,
I heard that breeze browser gives distance info. I don't have it. So don't know the exact distance.
This is a full frame image at 560mm on a 1.3 crop body. So effective focal length on a full frame would be =728mm. I have photographed this tiger from the vehicle. This was a diagonal shot from the road. I could have driven back on the road for a closer approach. I didn't want a side profile, so moved ahead to photograph from this angle.
Rocky, Jackie, Ken,
It was early in the morning, and the warm sunlight was not passing through the thick canopy. Hence the colour. The scene looked soft to the naked eye. I have not purposefully warmed it, as the actual colour of the scene was not like that. To all of you guys who want a tiger in warm light, I will post one after sometime. The original image posted here was converted from Raw without any changes. I will revisit the raw file for a few tweaks.
Fabs,
Thanks for your kind words. The trip was good even though on a couple of days the tiger was either in dense vegetation or gave us a complete miss. The length of tiger sightings varied from couple of minutes to couple of hours. This tiger on one occasion hunted before us but we missed it due to the dense forest. Ofcourse photographed tiger in kill, in good light as well as bad light. :D
John,
Thanks for your repost. Let me revisit my raw file.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
Last edited by Sabyasachi Patra; 04-12-2009 at 09:46 AM.
Really like this image congrats.......
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