Elephants of Amboseli

Bios. · Feb 11, 2012

More from Kenya. I love this sepia LR preset and it's great for showing the texture of elephants!

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Tusker by [[BIOSPHERE]], on Flickr

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Happyphant by [[BIOSPHERE]], on Flickr

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Sepia makes elephants look good by [[BIOSPHERE]], on Flickr

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Sepia makes elephants look good by [[BIOSPHERE]], on Flickr

Thanks.

DorkSterr · Feb 11, 2012

Beautiful!

PixelRabbit · Feb 11, 2012

Elephants are one of my favorite animals, 2 is awesome, 3 is amazing! Just ... Wow.

cgipson1 · Feb 11, 2012

#3 is a lovely shot... love the background.. wish the foreground was less cluttered, but it does provide some framing at least. Possibly cloning out the dark OOF branches low center would help to remove some distractions...

Bios. · Feb 11, 2012

Thanks. I'm not really big on cloning (mainly due to laziness) but I might do some localised contrast reduction at some point. Or just wait 10 years until I can afford the 400mm 2.8L and go and retake it!

cgipson1 · Feb 11, 2012

I understand! I did pull the shot and just did the branches Like I was thinking.. just to see what you thought...

Yours

Edited

Oops.. looks like I saved that edit in Adobe RGB instead of SRGB....

but you get the idea!

Aloicious · Feb 11, 2012

I dig #2, he looks so happy...heh the sepia works, but I still wouldn't mind seeing them in full color.

Bios. · Feb 16, 2012

Thanks guys.

Looks good with the cloned branches, you've got better cloning skills than me!

I may post them in full colour sometime....

Josh220 · Feb 16, 2012

Great shots, I really like #3 and #4.

Bynx · Feb 16, 2012

I much prefer the natural setting of your elephants to the ones around here. The zoo even uses them to put out fires. Here is one doing his job. The fire was quite huge but after 5 minutes of hose work it was extinguished. No lives were lost.