Serengeti Savanna

[Ed Cordes]

I made this image early one morning at the beginning of a game drive. Often I would concentrate so much on the animals I would forget to look around me. I like the way this lonely Acacia Tree stood out against the clouds. The hills in the distance gave me some finite end to the scene.

40D with 24-105 @ 24. Evaluative metering at ISO 800 and EV + 1/3; F9 and 1/250 hand held. Polarizer and GND used. Processed in LR and CS4 with Noiseware Pro at default settings. Full horizontal frame cropped to pano.

Thanks for looking. C&C most welcome.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Ed,
Looks like you had some great clouds! Love the tree isolation and placement. I would prefer less base (about 1/2 of it) and more sky ...do you have it as you mentioned a crop? Exposure is dead on and nicely handled overall!

[Bob Miller]

Hi Ed....This image looks great ! I agree with Roman the exposure is perfect. I also would crop some from the bottom and add more clouds if you have them in an uncropped version.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ed,
Lovely clouds. The good thing is the entire image is filled with those. The colours are nice. This is a nice image. I think moving the camera to the left so as to compose with the acacia at the rule of thirds postion would have been even better. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Robert Amoruso]

Ed,

Well composed with the tree on right. Agree with crop suggestions. To make this one a killer image, if possible getting closer and using a wide-angle to make the tree bigger in the frame and accentuate the sky at the same time. I am thinking being close and going low for lots of sky and just enough base to anchor it including the hills in the BG.