I found this tiger in the evening in Bandhavgarh National Park, India. It was feeding on a spotted deer fawn kill. Light was terrible. Unfortunately, I could not get the eye in the clear as the grass was swaying infront of the right eye (the one to the left in the frame). Did manual focus and experimented with higher depth of field despite the low light.
Canon EOS 1D Mark II, Canon EF 400mm f2.8 L IS USM, EF 2x II, ISO 800, f11, 1/50 th of second, mirror lock up, full frame. It was tough to fit within the 200kb rule as I had to reduce the quality to 35% from the normal 60% or so.
Can someone find out what was the exact subject distance? I am unable to see it in my firefox browser. Look forward to your critiques.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
Last edited by Sabyasachi Patra; 05-30-2009 at 09:41 AM.
Sabyasachi, I'd be afraid of him thinking you'd want his catch!
I like the partially obstructed body, just would like more room at the bottom.
It must be such a rush to see them in the wild!
I like the framing of the vertical grass on the sides wrapping over the tiger. Illustrates how well their camouflage works. I would feel worried that I was next course on the menu. I think the complexity of the BG makes it hard to compress to a small size for posting so the IQ needs to be dialed back.
Fabs and Tony,
Thanks for your comments.
Any idea how to find the subject distance. I have a firefox plugin but for some reason it doesn't show the distance.
I love habitata images. Clean eyes would have been better, but still very powerful as is. I take my hat off to your bravery man. You are mad! (in a nice way of course) :)
Tiger with Kill
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