Innocence
This is from my 2005 files. This tiger cub was photographed in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. Its mother had gone for hunting and had left him back along with his brother.
As soon as this fellow saw us, he came down towards the gypsy. He was about 7-8 feet away from me. At one point of time I thought this inquisitive cub will jump into the open gypsy as it was crouching. I had to leave my photographing and stand up.
Finally it settled down and even rolled over. That one hour 20 minutes is very memorable for me. No other gypsys were there at that time. They only left the place when another gypsy reached the place and screeched to a halt. I even ran out of card, opened the laptop and downloaded and then again shot. I used to shoot slides as well as digital in those days.
The frame was very tight with the 1.6 crop factor of the EOS 10D camera. So I quickly decided to crop a part of the ear as well as the paw to kind of balance each other. Look forward to your views on that.
Canon EOS 10D, EF 300mm F4 L IS USM, ISO 100, f5.6, 1/45th of second, full frame.
I used to photograph at ISO 100 and used to get sharp shots even at these slow shutter speeds. Processed in lightroom with default sharpening.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
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