Leopard @ Kabini

Date - 28/11/2011
Place - Kabini - Segur Main Rd
Body - 7D
Lens - 100-400 mm
Aperture - 5.6 - AV Mode
S Speed - 1/250
ISO - 1000 Exp Comp - -2/3

Please feel free to critique on all my posts ...regards

Good to see you post here Yasir bhai :)

Nice and sharp. I like the composition as well. I'm just thinking if the overall brightness can be increased a little...

P.S: It will be great if you can avoid the border and put your copyright on the image itself. With presence of borders, writing critique to an image (judging the image, actually) becomes difficult :(

tfs

Lovely first post! I don't remember many starting with a leopard.

I like the eye contact. How much crop is this? The light was pretty low. Else, I would have suggested a slightly narrow aperture. A higher shutter speed would have been good too.

I agree with Bhargava that the thick black border hinders in critiquing.

Was it moving when you came across or were you waiting? Thanks for sharing. Look forward to more.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Hello Yasir,

Welcome to IndiaWilds..!!

Lovely stare. Its nice you got the leopard in the open. How long was the sighting? Thanks for sharing.

A Leopard, considered by many as most Beautiful Predator in the Indian Jungles,is on Move through Natural Habitat with mouth open, keeping its Eyes on the Photographer.Lovely shot.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

Yasir - Welcome to Indiawilds, yes none of them have made an entry into Indiawilds with first post of this elusive cat.

Agree with comments made by Sabyasachi & others. Look forward to more from Kabini.
tfs

Nice composition and eye contact. Well captured Yasir. Thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Atul

Lovely.The greens around look nice.

TFS
Roopak

It's such a live capture and not many get luck to see this elusive cat, and very seldom poses such as this.
Well done and thanks for sharing.

Wonderfully captured and the thick greenery adds to the image.Good expression from the animal.(there is a typo in the date mentioned by you)

You have mentioned main road and so I imagine that you spotted it from your vehicle and took the picture.

Regards

@Sabyasachi Sir - This is a full frame image and he just came out of the lantana and sat there for 5 mins , then started walking and crossed the road hardly 5 ft away from the vehicle . he was infact so close that even at 100mm i was just able to fit only the face :) .
@ Bhargava - noted your concern with the thick border will take care of it in future posts .
@ Sankar - Apologies for the typo pl read it as 2010 and not 2011