Focus.
by romil

Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

An interesting image that contributes to the open challenge

Its all in the eyes! You have captured his intense stare well as he waits for his food, what amazingly blues eyes he has, I can imagine being immobilised by those mesmerising eyes just before he pounces on me to make a meal of me, gulp!!! With regard to the image itself I like the way you have composed him at the lower half with space to look up into, though given his pose I think you could have moved him further to the right and also taken a little more care with cropping his left foot, its no big deal but given the space above him it was unnecessary.

Looking at your settings you could have used a lower ISO and still had an easily usable shutter speed. Your DOF is good with the tiger nicely separated from the background. Given the near perfection of the animal himself I keep getting drawn to to the red blister on his foot, I would probably clone this out.

Sorry you didn't get any comments during the challenge I hope this makes up for it, Sid

DSCF0051
by romil

Comment by oldbimmercoupe:
still too lazy to come up with a title? wow.

Fate
by romil

Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

A very appealing image that meets the challenge well.

I agree with your commenters it is indeed a hauntingly beautiful image and it is made so specifically because of the inclusion of the person because to me his pose seems to suggest a certain sorrow at the loss of the tree. Your composition is perfect with the tree on the left and lots of negative space although I personally find the bird so small it is a bit of a distraction it should either be larger or not there at all. There's nothing you could have done in that respect but to have a larger bird flying towards it from the right together with the everything as it is would have been the icing on the cake.

Your exposure is good with good detail throughout, I do like the near silhouettes a lot. To be honest there's nothing else I can comment on I like it a lot, well done Romil

Fate
by romil

Comment by sfalice:
Beautiful image, Romil.

Fate
by romil

Comment by LoVi:
Love the spaces, colors....looks like some of the alternative raku pieces I pulled from my kiln today.....satisfying.

Fate
by romil

Comment by illini75:
Nice silhouette and perfect simplicity

Fate
by romil

Comment by ecmguy:
This is great--I like the bird flying overhead too, to break up the negative space.

Ruffled.
by romil

Comment by tate:
Give me 5 pal! =) We will never know - maybe people are all feathered-out.

The Professionals
by romil

Comment by tate:
This is pure photography. Easily something that could be in Nat Geo or a magazine.

The Professionals
by romil

Comment by sfalice:
You're in good company, Romil. grand image.