Taken at Tarangire National Park near the swamp just before sunset.
5D3
70-300L @ 90mm
1/160
f5.6
ISO-400
I created 2 images, 1 with +1EV and 1 with -1EV, brought into HDR Efect Pro2 module in CS6 and created this image.
Cloned out one bad glare spot.
Would very much like to hear your comments and feedback.
thank you
Loi







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. Is this FF, if not, I would have more room to the left with slightly less to the RHS, however this may not be true and subject to image content. I like the image as cropped, but if you have more image, then perhaps a more conventional 3 x 2 could also work, where the RoT's is applied with the lower third containing the tree canopy and below, with the rest of the 2/3rds being sky? Just a thought, but adding a Graduate rather than a Gradient, (two TOTALLY different adjustments) may help the sky in just darkening it a tad & boosting the saturation a tad within the same adjustment. Also just slightly darkening the FG, but lifting the highlights a fraction, this creates a sandwich effect for the subjects (the elephants), just a thought WDYT?
), and Rachel's made some valid points. Seeing as none of the moving parts (elephants) protrude into the sky over the horizon you could have easily shot 2 frames - one metered off the elephants (spot) to expose them and the FG properly, and one metered off the sky (spot) for a good sky exposure. It'd be easy to blend these due to the horizon being uniform here. Just some food for thought next time - as it would have resulted in higher IQ. I like the mood!


