Young Lady

[Sabyasachi Patra]

This young tigress was photographed in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. She is a shy tigress and runs away at the sight of tourist vehicles. Her mother was injured in a fight with a male tiger and then when the forest department officials tried to treat her with the help of a local vet, she predictably died.

Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, Canon EF400mm f2.8 L IS USM, ISO 400, f4, 1/640 second, EV: -1/3, full frame image.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Lakshminarayanan Nataraja]

I had the privilege of watching her in motion when Sabyasachi showed the high definition movie images.

The coat is glittering. Hope that she lives in Ranthambore forests like the erst-while Ranis like Noon, Laxmi, Padmini, Nuri etc - which many wildlifers like Sankhala, FS Rathore, Thapar etc so fondly wrote about.

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Wow! She looks huge and quite relaxed. Nice eye contact. Which zone was the sighting?
Look forward to more from the trip
tfs

[Mrudul Godbole]

Sharp image. I liked the backlit hair. The eye contact and the pose is nice. You got a nice close-up.

Praveen, if I remember correctly this was in Zone 4.

[Nikhilesh Mahakur]

Lovely composition and crisp , like the backlit face, wish you had got the tail too with some more space at the hind end.

Great!! look forward to more

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Great shot. I like the rim lighting and the low angle. Any particular reason for the use of f4?

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Abhishek,
I wanted a shallow depth of field. Will post from the series with f3.2 and f2.8 as well. You can then compare.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bibhav Behera]

Love the eyes. Did you try some images with your 24-105 or 24-70 with this guy? Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Love the eyes. Did you try some images with your 24-105 or 24-70 with this guy?

She is a tigress.

She came out of the forest and sat on the road for a minute or so. I didn't feel a wide angle would have looked good in this backlit scene.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi