Tiger Portrait

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I have not processed my images for sometime and hence was unable to post.

This is from my files. Photographed in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.

Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 300mm F4 L IS USM, ISO 200, f4, 1/60, handheld.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Great image Sabyasachi, its so sharp & neat. I wonder how you manage all this, honestly i have not even tried to use a tripod:).

I have a question here is this Tiger portrait full frame or crop, can we crop images that are 100% sharp and clear and treat them as Portrait. My question may be silly but I thought let me get my basic rights.
Thanks,

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Praveen,
This is one of the few images that I have cropped. The original file size is 2048x3072. I cropped it to 2007x2710. So it is a small crop to avoid a slight distraction at the top. I am uploading the uncropped ie. the full frame version of the image here.

I knew someone will ask question about sharpenss as the shutter speed was very low and I was handholding from top of an elephant. The sharpening is the default sharpening in lightroom. Amount 25, radius 1.0, detail 25, masking 0. I am happy about its sharpness.

When you crop images, you are throwing away lot of data. The image wont appear as good as your original.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bibhav Behera]

Nice and sharp... the colours seem a bit muted... you can increase the vibrance a bit more..

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely closeup. Liked the eye contact. The crop works better. Nice composition.

[Chitrita Chatterjee]

beautiful picture..... love the sharp eye contact...