Hi Markus - Welcome to the Wildlife Forum. As you mentioned, the elephants are walking away but these shots can work. Unfortunately from the histogram it looks like you underexposed the image in the field. You can go back to the raw converter and try adding some exposure. Are you working with PS? If so and you don't want to go back to the raw, try a levels adjustment bringing in the right hand slider until just before the whites start to clip (around 233-235). You'll need to apply some NR to the sky due to the noise introduced by lightening an underexposed image. You can already see noise in the sky from the shadow recovery that you did. Also there's no color profile embedded so there's a shift in the color. You may want to look at reducing the yellows a little. There's a sticky at the top of the forum on saving for web and embedding an sRGB color profile for viewing on the web. I would also crop some from the bottom or top so that the image isn't so 50/50 between land and sky. Shout if you have questions or problems with any of these suggestions.
It would be great if you would comment on other people's images. We recommend commenting on 3-5 other images each time you post an image of your own. It helps foster community atmosphere and let's us all learn from each other. Your comments don't have to be technical, just tell us what you like or don't like about an image.
TFS,
Rachel
Last edited by Rachel Hollander; 12-06-2013 at 07:10 PM.
Reason: added crop suggestion
Thanks Rachel, for the warm welcome and the helpful comments.
According to my settings sRGB sould be applied when saving to the web?!
However i realized that my raw converter used automatic WB so i assume that's why the colors are a bit yellowish.
I'm still struggleing to get much more out of the picture (you are right the original is sadly quite underexposed and i get constant memory alarms when trying to work with more layers to sharpen or reduce noise).
Anyway i've reworked it a bit differently now (daylight WB, cropping like you mentioned, slightly different amount of sharpening and shadow recovery). Probably that's better?
Last edited by Markus Hanika; 12-07-2013 at 04:30 AM.
very welcome to the forum. Hope you have much fun and learn what you are seeking for
Rachel gave you already great suggestions also where to find the post about Saving for web. Your RP looks much better, but is still in Adobe 1998. Don't go nuts now saying, but it says sRGB. We all went down that famous hallway of "how to save for the web properly"
Me too. Follow the road and you will see which little "tic" it is we all forget while saving for web and the major step before!
Hi Markus - much prefer your RP and think you're on the right track. Perhaps consider a composition where the eles don't bisect the image....something like this?
Ed