About the Image(s)

Nikon D100, Tamron 18-270mm, 270mm (432mm equivalent), ISO 800, f6.3, 0.4sec Tv

I was looking for a photo I could enter into the creative category at my photo club’s monthly competition and had forgotten about this shot I took in Okavango Delta in Botswana years ago ??“ we were headed back to camp after a game drive; the sun had set and save for this reflection of young cow elephant. We could hear but could not see what we believed to be a small herd of elephants the far side of a waterhole so I took the shot.

I had little choice with my settings to get a noise free shot so I shot this at ISO 800 ??“ f6,3 ??“ .4 second Tv. What you see is pretty much what I captured - however, I did push the contrast, and selectively dodged and burned, and lastly selectively saturated /used vibrance to intensity the color. I cropped in a quite a bit as we were pretty far from the pan itself and I thought a pano crop would work - Lastly, I removed some distracting grasses in the lower right of the frame.