Family Love

[Ken Watkins]

This fairly fresh Elephant was fairly unsteady on its feet, and received the constant support of his family.

Taken in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, 18th April 2012

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4

F5.6, ISO 400, 1/250 on beanbag

[Harshad Barve]

Liked it lot , specially trunk positions , not sure how but if we can recover some highlights
TFS

[dankearl]

Avery nice endearing photo, Ken.
I really like the trunks and the eye of the little guy.

[Andrew Merwin]

This is a very emotive image that tells a wonderful story. Great techs. I like the texture of the elephants' skin, the trunks & the eye of the youngster. Well captured. TFS.

[laurie golden]

This is precious. It tells the story well. Agree with Harshad, on the highlights.

[Ken Watkins]

Harshad and Laurie.

Can you explain what you men by "recovering highlights"?

Are you referring to the rather bright grass?

[laurie golden]

Ken,

Yes, the bright grass and parts of some legs.

You are asking the wrong person for help here. I try lowering the exposure or applying a little recovery in Bridge but that does not help a lot. In addition when it is just the background, I mask it and darken the bright background in Curves.

Hopefully an expert in processing will give you a better answer.

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - very tender moment with good detail on the ellies. I too found the highlights too harsh. As you know, I am in no way an expert on PP but took a couple of minutes and had a go. I did a luminosity mask at 65% opacity, burned the highlights at 15% and dodged the shadows at 7% and reduced the yellows -20. It's still not ideal but the highlights are not as eye grabbing. I'm sure you can do more with the RAW.


TFS,
Rachel

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Great comp and cuteness. Like the repost, it's not as bright Love the juniors truck resting on adults TFS:cheers:

[Steve Uffman]

Wonderful capture....Emotive someone said....I agree.....thanks for sharing

[Steve Canuel]

Looks like a nice safe place. Love the look on the mum(?). Also like the intertwining lines of all the legs and trunks.