Elephant

Like the rest of your portfolio: Bravo. The shutter release does not know the age of the person whose finger presses it. Yours is an amazing portfolio. Best Regards. John

A very interesting way to frame it. From the status of the skin/ears, one guesses that it is a captive animal. The tightness of the frame gives the same idea of the poor thing suffering in a cage!

Elephant. Comments, ratings appreciated.

Really nice texture.

great texture, and unique perspective

My mother did used creme to get rid of here wrinkels ;)

Love this shot, is by far imo the best in your animal folder. Textures, composition, tones, values, and shadows make this an extraordinary shot. I've taken a similar one (though its not in my portfolio yet), but yours is definitely much more interesting. It does evoke a sort of sadness to me. Pathos.

 

What a beautiful subject, and great capture. Regards.

This is really great, Rebecca - tell me that you printed this and framed it?

Actually I just noticed I put the wrong details in as to how I took this. I actually took this with analogue 35mm with black and white film and then developed it myself in the dark room. The facilities at school arent that good, and the enlargers just didnt seem to print the photo as I would have liked. So I scanned the photograph onto my computer and boosted the contrast so that the wrinkles were increasingly obvious. I hope thats not cheating? You should see the dark room at school.. pathetic - I had to sticky tape black stuff on the walls, and the tape (masking tape) wouldnt hold - so there was light coming in... but hey its better then nothing isnt it!

 

So yes, to answer your question Christopher; this photo is currently professionally mounted. Thankyou for your kind comments.

this photo is well cool the lines and texture are brilliant, its not cheating if you used ps to help ,that is why its there to make are photos even better

Hehe Thanks Sean

rebecca,

 

since you have been so kind to take a deep look on my picture i am taking some time to close look your work: i feel it really really good. I am commenting this image becouse i like the framing and the composition, but also becouse i feel it grainy.

 

it is happening to me to comment out many picture that appear to me grainy or otherwise oversharpened and i would like to know you opinion on that.

 

sincere

giuseppe

 

Rebecca, In my opinion, provided you don't misrepresent the fact, the final image is what counts, not how you produced it. Use all the tools at your disposal. I echo all the above positive comments about this one and have a couple of my own. The cropping is excellent, capturing the essence of the animal while keeping it's actual size a mystery by not showing any body outline nor any reference material. It's rather flatly lit, great for showing all the fine details though not usually great for emphasizing textures. Here, however, the skin on the elephant is so rough and wrinkled that you don't need specialized lighting to reveal it's texture. Glad you have this one printed, it deserves to be shown! Best, LM.

Like this photo much, a close photo of a indian elephant