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8 Comments | Report
sweetpea72
 
sweetpea72 January 23, 2016
Love this!:)
NanseaW
 
NanseaW January 23, 2016
Spectacular capture! What a lovely moment!
JDLifeshots
 
JDLifeshots January 28, 2016
Sweet capture! Congrats.
Ragu
 
Ragu January 30, 2016
they are so cute! cool capture!
manishdattani
 
manishdattani February 04, 2016
WONDERFUL MOMENT CAPTURE
bryanpereira
 
bryanpereira February 07, 2016
thanks for the nice comments!
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Angels74
 
Angels74 October 04, 2016
Really great shot!!
Corabelle
 
Corabelle February 10, 2018
Precious
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Behind The Lens

Location

This was taken at the world famous Sheldrick Animal Orphanage in Nairobi Kenya.

Time

I was on a photo safari with exposuretours and booked a morning at the elephant orphanage. It was quite busy but very educational and offered lots of photo opportunities

Lighting

It was a little overcast which was actually perfect for pictures as you dont get harsh shadows or a very contrasty image.

Equipment

I used a full frame DSLR and for this shot a 80-200mm lens at 200mm

Inspiration

I wanted to capture a close up of the fun and caring way these orphaned young elephants were playing,

Editing

I use a program called lightroom to correct color and improve the tones/contrast of the image

In my camera bag

I always shoot full frame and carry a 17-35mm 2.8 a 80-200 2.8 and my favorite 'walk around' lens a 60mm 2.8 that has a macro setting allowing for everything from a full body shot to a close up detail image without changing lenses.

Feedback

There were probably a couple of hundred people watching the elephants, having a zoom lens allowed me to exclude distracting background elements and really focus on the details.Its well worth also paying for a fast lens, shooting at f2.8 also gave me a soft diffuse background. Always keep your eye on the action and be ready to shoot in these circumstances, this moment only lasted a few seconds.

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