Curtain raiser: 5 tigers

[Bhargava Srivari]

The sighting of a lone tiger cub which then slowly transformed to a family affair was one among the most exciting moments in the wild for me :)
It was heartening to see the entire family closely knit together. More images of the cubs to come soon.
f4, ISO 320, EV +0.7, 1/800sec, evaluative metering
canon EOS 7D, canon 300 f/2.8 L IS II USM + 1.4x TC III

[Bhargava Srivari]

I had unintentionally cilcked on "post comment" and now the website server does not allow me to cancel it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice composition.Nice to see five tigers in different postures in a single frame.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Prasad Dingankar]

Lovely sighting this must be........ A heart warming moment.
Probably you might have clicked post comment to give the location details:)

[Bhargava Srivari]

Prasad,

:D That is a nice way of asking for the location :D It was tadoba andhari tiger reserve :)

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Lovely image of 5 tigers in a single frame Bhargava. This water body seemns to be the favoiurite place for the tigress and her cubs. Remember an earlier post from Gajanan with 5 tigers in a single frame and the place looks pretty similar to that.

With a 300mm f/2.8 a tc with 2x would also give good results, any specific reason you coupled it with 1.4x?

Thanks for sharing.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely sighting. Nice to see the whole family relaxing by the water. How long was the sighting? The cubs look quite big, maybe they will be separating in a few months. Thanks for sharing.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Quite a hair raiser Bhargava. great to see 5 tigers togather.

TFS
Roopak

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice sighting of the family. It is always a pleasure watching tigers. Why f4?

[Bhargava Srivari]

Sabyasachi,

Looking at the high shutter speed, I could have stopped down to f8 or so even, but given the fact that I was standing on the seat and shooting handheld, combined with the slight chance that I'd get to shoot some action made me keep the shutter speed as high as possible.

regards