Sunset Elephant

[Ken Watkins]

Taken In Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, 1st July 2010

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 IS hand-held from open game viewing vehicle

F5, ISO 800, 1/4000

[Harshad Barve]

beautiful light here and raised feet adding ,
TFS

PS , Looks like you keep your MKIV on ISO 800 as default ,

[Marc Mol]

Love the overall golden light and colour here Ken.
TFS

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - I like the sky color (looks like early evening) and the comp. Nicely done.

TFS,
Rachel

[DanWalters]

Beautiful light and nice warm colors. He looks massive!

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks to everybody for your comments, Hwange is probably the easiest place we have ever been to if you need some good Elephant images, they are quite literally everywhere.

This was taken around 16.30 in winter when the light disappears around 17.30, i was a dull day and the sun was just breaking through a gap in the cloud cover.

Harshad,

I use ISO 800 as standard when there is little light, it gives me extra speed for hand holding:)