Tiger - Kabini

[Vishwanath M K]

Nikon D200
AFS Nikkor 300mm F/4 IF ED Lens
F/4 ,1/80 Sec ISO 200 -1.0EV

Unexpected Sight ! Little out of Focus since I Could not Change ISO to 400 and a Little Camera Shake Too (Hand Held in a Jeep)!
For me, It is always Special To See Tigers From Southern India So I Uploaded To Share This Picture. It Was Photographed on 31 - 01 - 2010 Sunday Early Morning around 7:30 AM

Thanks For Comments and Valuable Suggestions
Vishwanath M K

[Bibhav Behera]

Always a great feeling to see a tiger in the wild in its natural habitat. I agree about the shake. You seem to have done most to make of the low light (F4 ,-1EV) but for the ISO. wish you had got that right.
Was the jeep still on?

[Vishwanath M K]

Hello Sir
Jeep was Not On!
But The other People inside the Jeep are Movements Due to Excitement
Thanks
Vishwanath M K

[Tiger Ramesh]

Mr Vishwanath.
Nice picture and full clear view of stripe patterns.
Any idea of the location?
was it president road near the river? or was it near Tiger Tank waterhole?

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Vishwa its always a delight to sight tigers, especially sighting of tigers at Kabini has reduced for past 6 months. I agree with comments made, i am sure you will see more tigers and get a perfect image soon. tfs

TG - I understand that this tigress was sighted near 2nd salt pit on Mastigudi had got this update yesterday from few folks of JLR:laugh:

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely sighting. Nice stride and eye contact. Its good you got it nicely in the clear. You can try to use a bean bag while photographing from the jeep, or you can rest the camera somewhere, to reduce the vibrations. Increasing the ISO would have definately helped. How long was the sighting? Thanks for sharing.

[Vishwanath M K]

Hello! Sir This Tiger(Female) was Seen very close to a Salt lick Near The Mastigudi Chain Gate and the sighting was about for 10 - 15 Sec Approx

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I agree that a higher shutter speed would have been helpful. However, with lot of excited tourists in one vehicle, it is not easy.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Siddhartha Gogoi]

Beautiful photograph and the coat looks very fine.

Regards,
Siddhartha

[Tiger Ramesh]

Thanks Praveen and Vish. This Tigress frequents the stretch between segur gate and mastigudi gate (parallel to highway). We narrowly missed her on 31st Dec at mastigudi salt lick...

Vish - I find monopods very useful and handy especially in jeeps...

[Mohan Raj]

Good sight to see a stride of a tiger in wild. A little increase in saturation could help as well.

Vishwanath, TFS a nice photo.