Hunting Tiger

This image is of a male Tiger (T38) hunting a Spotted Deer it had seen in a clearing in the forest.I watched this fully-grown, beautiful animal move through the forest with such grace,eyes fixed onto its target with a few rays of sunlight breaking through the tree canopy highlighting its beautiful face and eye.He Took on the characteristics of a common cat we see stalking a bird on the lawn.One of the best things I have ever seen within nature The image was taken from a jeep,where my guide and myself had lay in wait on the outskirts of this dense forest from dawn with my 600 lens in one of the natural clearings into this dense forest.Almost three hours then this beautiful moment with my heartrate going from 70 beats a minture to around 180!! a beautiful wild Tiger showing me a special moment I was so,so lucky to have seen let alone photograph

All Comments And Advice Welcome

Nikon D3S
Nikon F4VR600
F5.6,1/2000
iso 1000,+0.3ev
Matrix
PP-Capture NX,CS3,Full Frame Image

Great focus on the eye, and I love the whiskers. I've just been reading your Blog. All superb images and great stories to go with them. Inspiring stuff. Keep it up.

Thanks David,I try and care and I hope that comes through in my work,thank you for that

Very envious indeed. !
I do mine in the West Mids Safari Park! Much cheaper. !
PS Are you sure the exif info is correct ? 2000 second ?
I shoot my pool stuff in dark conditions at 80th at f8 on 800 iso roughly.
Cheers
JohnR

Yes that was the setting,in hindsight I should have lowered the ISO,but because I'd been there from dawn,when the light was poor I forgot to lower to 400 ,there was sunlight,then shaded areas with the light just catching the Eye,I used F5.6 because it was so dense and I wanted just the eye/face in focus,with my lens in one of the few,less dense spots if that makes sense John?

Don't know about the tec bits but this looks very ,very good to me.
Keith.

You seem to have had a fab time in India. Great image Craig!
Rene de Heer

Great to read your blog about your India trip,
I love the light on the head that makes the impression
of the eye so vivid. Superb
Bertl

very nice Craig, only nit for me personally is some of the paw missing, but that is me being uber picky on a very fine shot :) keep it up :)

The Autumn leaves really make this Craig, I like the way you can see the patches light on the leaves giving the impression of the forrest .


Calum

Thank you to the people who took the time to comment

Its a beauty Craig, well worth the long wait and effort, love the eye and whiskers.

Andy...