Gentle Giant

david fletcher wrote: Marvelous sight and experience Shreyas. I don't have use of Lightroom so can't comment.  Seems effective here,  although I would probably have shot wide open to up the ss. (at that distance, and size, the dof would be less important to me if that makes sense as that crop sensor helps a bit,  and a need to scarper quickly probably would have been prominent in my thoughts.. LOL).  

Carol Clarke wrote: Its fine for those who like air brushed backgrounds - but personally I prefer to see more depth and detail of the natural habitat in wildlife images, Shreyas.  To me they look more realistic as an actual record of what we saw when we observed the animal and took the photo.

 
Just my opinion.   

Carol.