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A Serengeti Elephant in its mud bath apparel.



A Serengeti Elephant in its mud bath apparel.

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cameraCanon EOS 5D Mark III

settings Aperture f/7.1 ISO 160 Shutter 1/125 Focal Length 24/1 

upload_dateOct, 2015

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7 Comments |
MK-Nige
 
MK-Nige January 21, 2016
Fabulous image. Well done.
muhammadfaisal
 
muhammadfaisal April 21, 2016
excellen BW
Anderl_R
 
Anderl_R April 22, 2016
Stunning capture. Congrats on your award
DriftingGipsy
 
DriftingGipsy February 21, 2017
Love this one!
HelenR
 
HelenR May 01, 2017
Stunning! Love it!
Nostroboy PRO+
 
Nostroboy October 25, 2018
Just an incredible shot !
hiyahercfarm Platinum
 
hiyahercfarm November 18, 2018
I love the black and white composition on this photo. Nicely done and great capture!

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#elephant #mud #bath #animal #wildlife #nature #tanzania #africa
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Behind The Lens

Location

This was taken during the summer of 2015 during my first photo expedition in Africa. This partucular image was taken in the amazing Serenegti National Park.

Time

It was mid-day, when usually light is not to good. But I was lucky that there was a lot of clouds, like if a storm was approaching our location.

Lighting

We did not get any rain, but those beautiful clouds helped achieve a pleasing light with even a bit of drama in the image.

Equipment

For this photo, the elephant walked towards us right after it took a mud bath. So I used my Canon 5D mark III with my very reliable Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens. So a handheld shot at wide angle just when the gentle giant past just a few feet away from from us!

Inspiration

When you are in Tanzania, you see thousands of animals... And frankly at a certain stage you need to stop shooting and enjoy nature and the animals around. So at that moment I was just doing this. And then I saw this elephant walking towards us. It was a beautiful animal, but what made this image more interesting for me was that it just came out from the mud and was almost black and very shiny. And the light was amazing. At the same moment my guide started to be nervous because the animal was walking right towards us. And it did not look like it was going to divert or stop. So my guide had to back up the truck very quickly. He made the right move as the elephant never stoped and passed right where we were. My guide said that he had seen in the past an elephant that was blind. And that this might be the case. Well I will never knwo but I got this great image to remember this great moment.

Editing

I used nik software to make a black&white version of the original frame. Both versions are interesting, but I prefer the B&W.

In my camera bag

As a wildlife photographer I travel with 3 Canon bodies (1D Mark II, 7D Mark II (for the reach) and 5D mark III (mostly for landscape). In a safari mode I will keep the 3 bodies out and will fit them with the 3 following lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens for the 5D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM for the 1DX Mark II and Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM Lens for the 7D Mark II. I also use Canon teleconverters (mostly 1.4X).

Feedback

One advise that helped me a lot was to simply remember to breath while you are photographing. You would be surprised to see how much photographers will stop breathing while photographing in the field... And if you do not breath, you will be less steady and that could make the difference between a very sharp image and a lost shot, expecially in low light conditions.

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