Little Elle

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

A little elephant walking along with a herd at Masai Mara. I used the 70-200 f/4 IS on the 7D for this shot.
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Camera
Canon EOS 7D (http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/eos_7d/)


Exposure
(1/800)


Aperture
f/4.0


Focal Length
200 mm


ISO Speed
400

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[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Sanjeev - It's often tough to isolate a shot of a baby ele. I find the placement of the baby's head vis a vis the mother's leg to be a bit of a problem here. Perhaps giving the baby a bit more pop to separate it more and darkening the mom and bg would help. Be careful of introducing halos, there's a faint one along the mother's leg and the baby's trunk.

TFS,
Rachel

[edwardselfe]

I like that the calf is so visible and the inclusion of the mother's rump certainly gives some sense of size. I think it needs a bit more 'POP' as Rachel has suggested, and perhaps a very careful use of clarity slider might help you here. Increase clarity a little on the calf and reduce elsewhere. Even though you had a 1/800s, sharpness is marginal and I'm not sure why.....did you use NR on the elephants which has caused some smeariness?

Ed

[Marc Mol]

I think another issue with this image is the scaling, the baby needed to be a year younger or mum (if it is her) needed to be bigger, to make better use of the sizing impact.
TFS

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Sanjeev,
i quite like the image , showing the small size of this cute elephant.Like the two lifted legs.

Technically or PP not ideally done, i think. Good suggestions to try out already made by the others.
Plus i would add a slight canvas rotation.

TFS Andreas

[Anette Mossbacher]

HI Sanjeev,

I agree with Andreas on the canvas rotation. Looks very nice and you got already good suggestions to bring it up further.

Have a great day

Ciao
Anette