W-repost under the line of fire

It's always great to get a big cat coming right at you. Love the eye contact here. It does feel a bit warm on my monitor.

Max

What a beautiful animal (and what a menacing stare!). Even at f/4 with a lot of blurring the background seems rather busy to me. I wonder whether a smaller aperture would actually make it less distracting by making making the grass and the tree more distinct instead of kind of haloed?

Still, spectacular image.

Clinton

I really like the head on view Jagdeep. I don't really think keeping the tree in the frame is adding much tough. I find the dark color intense and distracts fro the cat a bit. Did you consider cropping out the top part of the image and moving this to an 8x10?

Hey Jagdeep,
I like this image as is, keeping your cool in the line of fire to come away with this great image gets two thumbs up from me. Great POV, wonderful detail and the BG shows the environment you were in very well. The vertical presentation also works nicely.
Well done . . .

Lovely light, angle and colours. I take it you were on foot then?

Hi Jagdeep,

The stare is powerful here and I can certainly understand the chill down the spine!

The image is strong as presented, and although the tree in the background doesn't bother me, I am left wondering if removing some of the background (i.e., at the top of the frame) and thus moving the tiger's head higher in the frame wouldn't strengthen it even more. If you have more foreground I'd add that as well (adding about as much foreground as you remove background). Just a thought...

Cheers...

Brad

Thanks friends !
Kurt : I did considered cropping out the top part, but the tree was evenly spread, so I left it as it was.

Morkel: If I was on foot, then wouldn't have been here to share this picture. I was in an open jeep, but the tiger was on higher level.

Brad: Here's the repost as per your thought.

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Jagdeep Rajput

Wonderful perspective. My only nit is the dark trees that almost emerge from the body. I definitely prefer the tweaks in the repost!

Hi Jagdeep,

I definitely prefer the repost, and this is definitely along the lines I was thinking of. Personally I'd probably opt for getting the head even a little higher in the frame (getting the eyes closer - but not necessarily at - the top 1/3 "border" of the frame). To me this "elevates" the subject and makes it feel even more that it was bearing "down" on you (if you follow my reasoning).

Cheers...

Brad

Jagdeep,
Brilliant shot the re-post is better as I thought the OP was a little warm, but lets face it Tigers in common with most animals vary in colour a lot .