Technicolor Giraffe

Seriously, Morkel?! You captured an image of a giraffe with a rainbow in the background? Don't think I've ever seen an image with that combination ! Awesome image, and nicely done!

Lucky dog. Honestly, I'd simply be pleased with a nice blue sky like that to offset the giraffe's fur. The rainbow is certainly a nice bonus.

Max

Hey Morkel,

Hmmm...you seem to have a diagonal band of colour noise across the sky - perhaps some noise reduction in order??

Nice find and I do like the colour added by the rainbow and the giraffe definitely looks nice and sharp. Without knowing a thing about the shooting situation and the scene outside the frame, I'm wondering if a bit more of a "scape" (wider angle) could have worked slightly better here?? The reason I say this is that I'm not sure the two main elements here complement one another strongly enough to work optimally in such a tight crop - rainbow is nice and giraffe is nice but I'm left wishing I could see more of both? Not sure this makes too much sense...hopefully you'll get what I'm driving at (and, could well be that a wider scene was totally impossible anyway...).

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

I like the color and isolation of the head and neck in this image. The Giraffe stands out nicely from the blue sky.

Hey, Morkel, I've heard of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, but no one told me there was a giraffe, too!

i think the combination of giraffe and rainbow are surely not so frequently seen, but to me the composition is not so appealing;

cheers, Luca

Thanks very much for the varied comments on this one, folks.
I was away for a couple of days.

Brad - of course I do have a wider shot, will post it just for you
Luca - please elaborate on what you would have liked to see different in the composition? The giraffe perhaps more centred?