Elephant Expanse

Gallery: WildlifePosted February 16, 2016123 views7 comments

As many of you know by now, I love a good "animalscape".
I tend not to limit myself to which focal length is needed to capture a good "animalscape", but I do like employing the wide angle lens and trying to merge the landscape photographer and wildlife photographer in me...

The plains of the Mara always invite me to whip out the wide angle perspective.
A gloomy overcast afternoon and some cooperative elephants, coupled with a well-placed inselberg, made this shot come to life.

Techs:
Nikon D800
Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm
f8.0 | 1/160 SS | ISO-320

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Ken Watkins on February 17, 2016 at 3:56 AM

Morkel,
Whilst the clouds are nice I feel the positioning of the Elephants looks wrong, they needed to be looking the other way?

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Comment posted by Max Waugh on February 17, 2016 at 11:02 AM

Great sky, and nice balance in the frame between the elephants and the small butte.

Max

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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on February 17, 2016 at 11:23 AM

Sweet sky, fits the image very well! I think a vertical crop including only the elephants and the lonely little tree/bush in the distance would be sweet as well.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on February 18, 2016 at 10:14 PM

The clouds are awesome here Morkel and I think the hill on the right balances the elephants being toward the left of the frame, it works for me. devil

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Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on February 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM

Works for me Morkel, could not see any reason to change it!!!!!

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on February 21, 2016 at 8:20 AM

Hi Morkel,

You know I'm a fan of the 'scapes as well - so by default I like this. I like the somewhat extreme positioning of the subjects (at the very bottom of the frame) - combine that with the dominance of the sky (visually) and the subjects almost become a good "find" in the shot. I agree with Max on the balance provided by the butte. Tonally the non-sky part of the image seems a bit flat...I'd almost like to see a LITTLE more dark-on-dark detail on the elephants. But overall very nicely done...

Cheers...

Brad

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on March 1, 2016 at 3:20 PM

Thanks folks!
Brad - good suggestion, I will certainly play around...

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