TIGER - A Perspective

A very strong comp and a nice perspective.

Only nit: the image seems a bit washed out. I think if you upped the saturation and contrast a bit it woud "pop" more.

What an impressive shot! Simply beautiful!
The darks seem slightly washed out toward the bottom on my screen... Don't know what it could be. Maybe some light reflecting off of your lens hood? Easily fixed though.
Beautiful work, Subharghya!

Hello Subharghya,
I'm a real fan of ,up close and personal, don't need to see all of the animal, type of portraiture. I see several different possible crops here, but the one you have chosen is very good. Nice and crisp for hand held at a 1/50th of a second.
Well Done!
Neil

I love close-ups of animals, especially such magnificent ones as this tiger. I like your composition very much, but would only suggest to brighten it up a little.

Wonderful close up and I also think the overall color needs a boast. Good detail on the larger image, keep on shooting those close up shots, well done.

I like these kind of crops. People like to keep the ears and whiskers inside the frame but you prove it is not always necessary. Good DoF.

Fantastic image! I love the way that the tiger's body curves around to form the backdrop for your image.. The composition is also excellent and the sharpness for handheld at such speed is really good.. Congrats on a fine image

Very; nice. I like the feeling of serenity.

Subharghya the detail and clarity in this portrait are spectacular. I agree that going in tight can work very well and produce very intense portraits and this is a great example. The additional benefit in this case is the beautifully patterned fur coat of the tiger, this provides a lot of nice texture, shapes and color.I do agree that it would benefit from a minor contrast and possibly saturation boost (note that contrast increase already increases saturation as well), but be careful not to overdo it. Compositionally i am a bit undecided about the bottom edge of the frame and am trying to imagine a bit more room there. This is difficult and if this is cropped, I would like to see a version with a tad more room there.

Hi Friends
Thanks for your appreciations and honest critiques !! I tried different contrast settings but this image has pure black furs and pure white whiskers so a very little increase of contrast is affecting the details in black fur and making the whiskers too bright .. I can try selective contrast here but instead I have made a version with boosted saturation (+12) .. Have a look at it here .. May be this will look better !

@Vincent - I am sorry that I can't fulfill your wish with more room at the bottom as this is the full frame !

The linked repost looks definitely more attractive Subharghya. Do you know TK's Luminosity masks? Especially the Narrow & basic mid tone mask curves are very powerful tools to increase midtone contrast without affecting the lights and darks near the ends of the histogram.

Hi Vincent

Thanks for pointing me TK's methods of Lumi Mask .. I was not aware of it and till now I had to work really hard to achieve this kind of masking ! I have tried a modified version of the Basic Mid-Tone Mask and applied a curve. Have a look at it here.

Thanks again
Subharghya

Subharghya, I love these compositions . Recently saw a zebra composition just like this. I too felt that perhaps going a tad wider might have made it more appealing for my eyes. The reason am saying this is the area that the head is covering is about 2/3 rd of the frame, what if it was say 50% of the frame ? A little more of those stripes on the left :). I hope I did not ask for too much. Another superb tiger image.