I Hear Ya Pal

This guy was standing alone & it was hard to shoot through the parallel wired fence, but as soon as I aimed, he spread his ears. In this image, I tried to erase the signs of the fence in the background. The original is also posted.

This is a good image to illustrate the topics discussed in the following article:

 

http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Anatomy/The_Ears/the_ears.html

 

I think that your image is aesthetically better than the ones that were used for illustration purposes by the authors of that article.

That's funny. Yeah they should probably get some new pictures =) Soon, I'll post a revised version of this & some of the other animals. I need to remove the blue tint they all have. Is that from the UV filter because I often have to adjust the blue level?

Now that you mention it, this image appears to have a slightly blue/greenish tint to it. The color of the elephant (as rendered on my monitor) is definitely not gray, but slightly blue/greenish. (Is that what you see?) I believe that most digital image editors have a color correction feature to ensure the correct color balance, and to remove such off-color effects.

I'm not a digital camera person (I still use film) so I can't comment on what might be causing the effect with images produced by the Nikon D70.

Ahhh... yes. All of my pics have the blue tint. I think my UV filter is garbage =) Or maybe I need to remove it sometimes. I'm still learning. I used to shoot film (mostly snapshots) but it got way too expensive having them developed. While I like playing with the pictures, I'd rather not have to make the color adjustments on each one sometimes. I'll let you know when I fix this one. I also want to remove that road in the background too.

Fixed =) I went & re-uploaded my blue pics

I liked how sharp the ear was, but I didn't like the background so I

did some work on it. I was just wondering what others thought.

Thank you!

Lovely composition. Were you close?

Thank you. I was quite far actually. It was through a fence, 300mm. The post from the fence fell on the other side of his face.