The male Elephants (Tuskers), don't always stay with the herd, they occasionally visit the herd for mating purpose and to establish their ownership. Otherwise, they are lone wanderers.
The male here is drifting away from the herd. After visualizing the frame, I had to find a higher POV and stand on the seat to execute this.
Thank you so much for your kind attention & views!
Canon 400D; 70-200mm; ISO 100;1/100 sec. at F 4.5
PS. This is from my initial digital shoots, so techs are not what they should have been.
Jagdeep Rajput
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8 commentsHope it make sense,
Luca
I really like the detail in the subject and the herd in the background.
The way you caught this Tusker does indeed make it seem like he's rapidly on the move ... makes me wonder how the image might have appeared had you used an even slower shutter speed to blur him a bit.
You didn't state what focal length you used of your 70-200, so this may not have been possible, but like Luca I feel the image might have had just a little more appeal that it does as presented had you been able to create more space for the Tusker to "move into" and then perhaps cropped as a pano.
Having said all that, I can only hope I'll be bringing Elephant images of this standard back from my Big Trip to South Africa later this year, Amen! ;^)
There's no doubt you have the colour palette and detail of this elephant shot absolutely nailed - again! I can see the argument for removing a little room behind the elephant and adding it to the left side of the frame, but to me that's not that big of a deal. I think the prefer the image with a tad more room between the top of the main subject's back and the elephants in the background - I THINK you could add a pinch more room there (if you had the desire to do so) with Photoshop CS5's Content Aware Scaling, tho' it might be just a tad too tight now to do that. But overall I like the image as posted and instantly saw your style in it...
Cheers...thanks for sharing this one...
Brad