The eye contact is nice. It was a against the light scene. In such situations, your lens loses contrast. The only issue in such situations when a tiger is in water is the light reflecting from the wet portions of the body. It becomes difficult to control it. One needs to increase the black point, but it becomes touch and go as slightly more and you clip the blacks in the face which is in shade. The image is sharp despite handholding at the slow 1/100 shutter speed. I don't mind the rocks as both the foreground and background rock appear like natural barriers.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi