Greeting an old friend

Elephant cow waiving to a giraffe on the other end of the water. Or maybe that was just my imagination.

I had been working for about half an hour on post-processing this image and when I thought I was done and happy with it I was surprised how long it had taken me. When I started with the original I figured it did not need much work. I compared it to the original capture (as I saw it on the back of my camera screen when I captured it) and was surprised to find out I liked that one better! Hmmm, perhaps a realisation that (extensive) post-processing is not always required if an image is already to your liking.

So here is the original, straight from the camera, totally unaltered (except for a slight rotation correction) image as shot.


Chobe NP, Botswana
Camera Model Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Shutter Speed 1/800 Sec.
Aperture Value f/8
ISO Speed 200
Lens EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 190
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -1.33
FF (very small crop due to leveling of slightly skew horizon)
No PP