Gallery: WildlifePosted October 28, 201478 views5 comments
Indian Elephants feeding in the Corbett meadows, an experiment with selective focusing.
Thank you so much for your kind attention n comments.
Canon 5D III; 500mm; ISO 400; 1/200 sec. at F 5.
Jagdeep Rajput
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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on October 28, 2014 at 5:36 AM
Jagdeep,
This works well, but I would have preferred all of the foremost Elephants head, you will have to get a 200-400
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Comment posted by Ken Archer on October 28, 2014 at 5:33 PM
I really like this composition Jagdeep. I very much enjoy the texture and sharpness visible in the closest elephant. I do find myself wishing the other two elephants on the left side animals were a tad sharper.
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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on October 28, 2014 at 11:43 PM
I also wish the FG elephant had a bit more of it's head visible. I am fine with the DOF choice though and think in this case leaving the back elephants less sharp provides a better sense of depth.
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Comment posted by Brad Hill on October 29, 2014 at 8:50 AM
Hi Jagdeep,
Interesting experiment. To be honest, this doesn't work too well for me and I had to think awhile before I could explain why. I think what the issue is for me is that in this case the two elephants on the left (that are the most OOF) are equally as dominant in the frame and the composition as the in-focus elephant(s). Or, said another way, the in-focus elephant seems no more dominant to me than the others in the composition and I'm left wondering why - through selective focus - it's considered the main subject. To me the in-focus elephant looks more like a "natural frame" for the image - or almost a "bookend" - and my eye naturally moves off it and quickly wanders over to the left-most elephants - and with them OOF there's almost a bit of visual confusion for me (almost a "huh...why aren't these guys in focus??").
Hope this makes sense...a bit hard to explain my reaction to this image. But great that you're trying new and different things - and this gallery is a super place to do so!
Cheers...
Brad
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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on October 30, 2014 at 7:38 AM
Thanks friends!
Ken, 200-400 is on my wish list, let's see when it arrives?
Jagdeep Rajput
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5 commentsThis works well, but I would have preferred all of the foremost Elephants head, you will have to get a 200-400
Interesting experiment. To be honest, this doesn't work too well for me and I had to think awhile before I could explain why. I think what the issue is for me is that in this case the two elephants on the left (that are the most OOF) are equally as dominant in the frame and the composition as the in-focus elephant(s). Or, said another way, the in-focus elephant seems no more dominant to me than the others in the composition and I'm left wondering why - through selective focus - it's considered the main subject. To me the in-focus elephant looks more like a "natural frame" for the image - or almost a "bookend" - and my eye naturally moves off it and quickly wanders over to the left-most elephants - and with them OOF there's almost a bit of visual confusion for me (almost a "huh...why aren't these guys in focus??").
Hope this makes sense...a bit hard to explain my reaction to this image. But great that you're trying new and different things - and this gallery is a super place to do so!
Cheers...
Brad
Ken, 200-400 is on my wish list, let's see when it arrives?
Jagdeep Rajput