B2 on the road?

Gallery: WildlifePosted May 22, 2011163 views9 comments

Here is the famous B2 patrolling his territory in Bandhavgargh, 24th April, 2011.

EOS 1D MkIV

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 IS hand-held from Maruti Gypsy

F7.1, ISO 1600,1/500

Ishould have opened up more and noise is only just acceptable to me

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on May 22, 2011 at 3:45 PM

Ken, certainly looks to have been tough light (at least directionally)
I like the intent stride and gaze. Would love a little more exposure upfront but as you say you probably reached the limit before enhancing noise too much. Maybe a slight reduction in greens could help here as there seems to be a very slight green cast.

Registered on March 22, 2011, 385 Posts, 2068 Comments

Comment posted by Lon Sharp on May 22, 2011 at 10:19 PM

The rim lighting is dramatic. I agree with the observations about the difficulty of the exposure and I, too, see a bit of a color cast. You achieved a nice low perspective, too.

Registered on December 9, 2007, 258 Posts, 9892 Comments

Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on May 23, 2011 at 1:56 AM

Agree with Lon, the rim lighting looks great on the old warrior and you caught him nicely in his stride ! Wish the bottom right weren't that bright, but you had little control over that. Those tiny sprouts add to "wildness" in the image.
By the way, i think there is great potential for a vertical crop here.

Registered on October 25, 2009, 110 Posts, 835 Comments

Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 23, 2011 at 4:09 AM

Thanks for the comments, light was from back right, but at least he was predominately in dappled shade.

Registered on December 15, 2010, 1537 Posts, 4877 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Hackley on May 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM

This certainly is a difficult angle due to the direction of the light. I also think this might work better as a vertical crop. Good job in bringing out some detail in the shadows, way to go. These are really wonderful animals.

Registered on September 17, 2009, 302 Posts, 5535 Comments

Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on May 24, 2011 at 8:14 AM

Wonderful gaze n gait from B2, may prefer a touch more room at the bottom n top.
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on May 26, 2011 at 10:52 PM

Wonderful shot of a magnificent animal Ken :^)

The fact that you've caught rim-lighting on it's RH side rescues this from being a lot less dramatic had this not been there. You didn't mention if this one's cropped or not, but if it is I think reintroducing some space on the upper and lower edges of the frame would be great, although I also have to say that I love the composition you chose.

If this were mine, I would certainly work a little noise reduction into this. All in all, a most captivating picture and thanks for sharing :^)

Registered on March 1, 2011, 154 Posts, 2083 Comments

Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 27, 2011 at 2:50 AM

Jim H ,Jagdeep and Ashley,

Thanks very much for your comments.

I have just rechecked the RAW and have to admit that this is almost FF and I have no extra room top or bottom, I will try later to add a little canvas.As for NR I have allready run some, but perhaps not enough I will take another look at it.

Cheers

Ken

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Comment posted by Harshad Barve on May 30, 2011 at 9:57 PM

excellent image of tiger ,

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