two of the new cubs at the National Zoo. Watched them play for about 45 minutes, got some great shots. But its so hard to CONSCIOUSLY adhere to rule of thirds... So this is what I ended up with for this challenge. This almost became my sepetember free study but I still have 25 days!
at 400mm handheld
open, crop, curves, KODAK digital Gem (noise reduction), hue and sat (reduce green, raise master), sharpen, add border, save for web.
BTW - that's a concrete wall behind them. The day was very over cast and it was 8AM - 800 ISO was pushing it, as you can see by the shutter speed. The focus is dead on and the image looks much better large size if you don't mind the noise - I was able to use a gaussian blur on the big one that wasn't legal in basic editing.
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man their eyes are freaking me out...this composition works for me..it is the one cub's looking over which really pulls the whole thing together..nice work...
I'm usually cool with noise, but this had a kind of overshapened low-contrast look that didn't work for me (I have no idea why sometimes I love it and sometimes I don't). But I still gave it a 6 for good composition and a wonderful subject. Those tigers have so much personality. This pic is growing on me!
A bit blurry on the focus and the colors seem a bit flat. Great capture though from a composition point of view. This would have served well in an advanced editing challenge. I am a sucker for tiger shots. We have no babies at our zoo.
What a great subject! Is this a small crop of a large picture? Or are you using a 2x extender? There is something a bit off. But I like it alot! Great job and good luck. Hope their mommy didn't catch up with you :)
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