Queen of Bandipur

[Joel Gouder]

Focal Length - 300 mm
F-Number - F/9
Exposure Time - 1/200 Sec.
ISO Speed - ISO-200
Metering Mode - Center Weighted Average
Exposure Compensation -0.7 Step

Body - Nikon D7000
Lens - AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED (4.3x)

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice 'jungle in winter' mood to this image. the light and colours look nice.cud been sharper.

TFS
Roopak

[Joel Gouder]

Nice 'jungle in winter' mood to this image. the light and colours look nice.cud been sharper.

TFS
Roopak

@ Roopak tried giving a bit sharpen to the image but was throwing out more noise so thought not to add.Thanks for your suggestions

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Joel,
The scene looks nice. How much of crop is this image?

Wish a strand of sunlight had fallen on the tiger's face. That would have been great. Ofcourse, that was not in your control.

Did you pull up the exposure during post processing? It becomes tough to critique images with borders.

Since your shutter speed was 1/200, and assuming there would have been other excited folks pushing and pulling, a higher shutter speed would be safe. F9 aperture should have resulted in greater depth of field.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Joel Gouder]

Joel,
The scene looks nice. How much of crop is this image?

Wish a strand of sunlight had fallen on the tiger's face. That would have been great. Ofcourse, that was not in your control.

Did you pull up the exposure during post processing? It becomes tough to critique images with borders.

Since your shutter speed was 1/200, and assuming there would have been other excited folks pushing and pulling, a higher shutter speed would be safe. F9 aperture should have resulted in greater depth of field.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Thanks Sabyasachi, yes i pulled up the exposure during processing and will make sure that i will not include the borders.

Thanks
Joel

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Joel,
You need to get the exposure right in the field. Pulling up about 1/3rd stop during post processing will be ok. However, if you pull up the exposure a lot, then there will be more noise. The areas that are close to the left side of the histogram - close to the left border in the histogram - don't hold much of data levels. So pulling them up results in noise. Please check this article: Understanding histogram:
Indiawilds: Land of the Tiger. Conservation, Wildlife Photography, Communities

And by sharpening, you will also be sharpening the noise and hence that would look bad.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi