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I like it. Has that fine art feel to it. Looks likes something you would see in a gallery. Love the texture on the elephant. The composition works for me.
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What a top class image !!! Such a fantastic result from fairly common oppurtunity (in the right location). The detail and texture are great however the comp is FANTASTIC and makes the image imo. Hope you dont mind however I am certainly going to try and do something similar....
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Hi Rachel, being square on to the sensor just works perfectly, providing that symmetrical capture and the camera nails the image. Good choice in having the subject darker and the BKG light to provided separation (amplified in PP I assume), but I'm not a fan of the 'grainy/film noise' appearance. In an ideal world if the ears at the end were the same it would have been nicer, but that's nature. I can also see a scenario where the grain is less visible and toned.
TFS
Steve
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Thank you John, Basil and Steve for the comments and suggestions. Basil - I am by no means the first to attempt or achieve such a capture so by all means you should go for it. I will say that it was more frustrating than I had thought and over the course of a few trips it was always almost but not quite. I think the key here is that the elephant was inquisitive and lumbering slowly towards us to check us out rather than in a charge/mock charge situation. In the mock charge they always sort of shake their head as they get close causing the head not to be parallel to the sensor.
Steve - Some of the discussions we had in the workshop where both Villiers and Lance are accomplished b&w shooters is that the best images for conversion are often the ones where there is a dark subject against a light bg or a light subject against a dark bg.
Thanks again,
Rachel
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Thanks Gabriela. Hope you're having fun in Kruger.
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This is a beaut! Love the texture, the grainy feel and the square-on comp Rachel.
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Thanks Morkel