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Erik, not possible anymore. LightStalking seems to have removed the image and they expect me to take a premium account here… which I am NOT doing. So, apologies!
Albirder and Irene: Apologies for going MIA. Albirder, your suggestion is an eye opener, not just for this, but my other images too. Thanks a ton!
Thanks Irene. You may want to read this story with many more images here – http://www.travelure.in/orphaned-elephants-yogis-in-my-life/
Irene, thanks for your response. Just thought I’ll tell you about a Yogi in my life.
Many years back, a friend had approached us for help. She was a part of a non-profit organisation that used to help animals in distress. She sought help for an orphaned elephant they had named Yogi.
Yogi was a couple of months old. And we were told that as babies, elephants are totally dependent on mother’s milk for full 2 years. So, Yogi was completely on Cerelac and Lactogen diet. And though he was a baby, he would consume 4 tins of Cerelac and of Lactogen everyday. Her organisation was going broke feeding Yogi.
We thought of a novel solution and approached our daughter’s school for help. School requested all children to contribute a tin each of Cerelac and Lactogen for Yogi. Over the next 2 days, we had 2000 tins each of these baby foods. The school also adopted Yogi as the school mascot.
That one incident sensitised me about orphan elephants. Soon after, I decided to make a trip to see Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka. Department of National Zoological Gardens, Sri Lanka, runs this facility. It supports close to hundred orphaned elephants today. I shot these images there.
The site filled me with admiration for the Sri Lankan government’s gesture. True, that today it has become a tourist attraction and these elephants are supported by funds generated from these tourists, but the Sri Lankan government’s gesture when they started the orphanage was laudable.
I believe till the time ordinary citizens like us, commonplace institutions like my daughter’s school and governments of countries continue to show care for other species that co-habit our earth, there is hope for life; and for peace.
You may still want to call it a tourist trap. My conscience doesn’t allow me to. Thanks once again. Cheers!
Sure ChrissieBee… Here goes…
Colour option:
Stagecoach-1.jpg by Travelure on Light StalkingB&W option:
I would also give it a little more sky. Right now, it looks too cramped in the frame.
Can’t see the image. Restricted access perhaps.
Larger size of colour image may be seen at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajaysood/16284267495/
And, the larger size of the B&W image may be seen at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajaysood/16282483851/
Hi Emilio. While you are fixing the frame and statue’s relative position in it, try using the levels curve and try and create a little more contrast. Just a mass of mid-tone greys doesn’t bring out the power of the image. Cheers!
Shammy, level is correct (see all verticals). The subject closer vs. the subject far away has the perspective lines, that’s all. Both (1 & 2) have been shot with wide end of 24-70mm, hence the distortion and profile lens correction has already been applied. Apologies for not sharing exif for these latter images.
StefB, unfortunately, my shots with people are these.
Gordon, thanks for your observation. I guess that point about ‘high demand’ is valid.
Falx, I agree with using B&W as the approach to depict the brief. I use Google’s Nik Software’s SILVER FX PRO for B&W processing.
And Wanderley, you are right about colours distracting and hence confusing the viewer about where to focus. Which is why I posted B&W’s in the first place (someone had earlier asked – ‘Why B&W).
Thanks for helping me choose – I guess I’ll re-process 1 & 3 in B&W and use one of those.
Thanks again. Cheers!Thanks all, for your comments. Could you review if one of these 3 work for the brief?
This?
Really Crowded Sun Temple.jpg by Travelure on Light StalkingOr this?
Really Crowded Sun Temple 2.jpg by Travelure on Light StalkingOr this (2nd B&W in colour)
Really Crowded Sun Temple 3.jpg by Travelure on Light StalkingThanks Caimi. I just enlarged the image to see… actually, the lower left corner doesn’t have sharply defined ice needles as the ice there was a vague mass, unlike in the rest of the landscape where it was well defined as ‘ice needles’. Hence, am ruling out the not-sharp-enough-lens and/or hand-held as the culprit, but am holding nature as the culprit đŸ™‚
Better?
Ice Needles Edit.jpg by Travelure on Light Stalking
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Edit-1.jpg by Travelure on Light StalkingOops… my lightroom export default led to the watermark… sorry… just replacing…
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Hi Coralie. I like the non-HDR version better (since I am sworn HDR hater) đŸ™‚
Just a small suggestion – try cropping the bottom and right a little to get the secret swimming pool at the bottom right 1/3. Eye will remain more on the pool. That will also enhance the drama of the clouds shot with a ultra wide lens. Right now, the horizon line bang in the middle is also a slight bit of an issue. Cheers!Dean, your last crop seems the best to me… Here, my eye remains firmly on the subject and is NOT distracted by the flower. It follows the rule of thirds pretty well. Also, the cropped stalk doesn’t allow the eye to go out of the frame.
