Return of elephants

Hi Basri,

This is a pleasing shot - and I personally like seeing these "animalscape" type shots (and hopefully we'll continue to see more of them). I didn't catch your previous version, so can't comment on how the post-processing compares to the earlier post. I like how the elephants are silhouetted against the sky (with little or not detail to them) and for me it's visually interesting how they've formed a long chain. It does look like some of the sky is totally blown out (in the upper left corner), but this certainly doesn't ruin the image (and, there are some scenes where the sun-illuminated clouds ARE blown out to the eye, so hard to criticize that for being "unnatural"). The sky colour (right side of frame) looks a little more green than blue on my monitor, but perhaps unique atmospheric conditions are behind that (and the colour is accurate)?

I think I would like the scene more with a little more foreground removed, thus lowering (or "grounding") the elephants in the frame and slightly changing the ratio of ground:sky (and, if you have more of the original frame above, I'd consider adding in the same amount of sky that was removed on the bottom). But that's personal preference stuff...just a thought...

Cheers...

Brad

PS: One other thing: there seems to be some lens flare on the middle-right section of the foreground - if this were mine I wouldn't hesitate to clean that up (it is, after all, simply an artifact of the photographic process),

Basri,

I really like this, from a "technical" point of view I think cropping smaller more letterbox would eliminate some of the "blown" whites, I would also take quite a bit from the bottom.

Basri that is an enchanting image.
The light and colours of the sky are gorgeous.
Personally I think it would work better with more of a panoramic crop, removing a large amount of the foreground which - for me at least - adds nothing to the image.

Great line-up of elephants here!
You've already been given some great advice.
Jagdeep Rajput

This is a very cool scene Basri with an almost perfect single file line-up! The blown highlights are a bit bothersome though as is the lens flare in the FG.

Thank you very much indeed for all your constructive comments.
Please have a look attached panoramic cropped version.

Cheers...

Basri

Liked the first post, but the second, in my eyes, is much improved. The panoramic view really captures the feeling of the long line, and the sky is much better.