Popular Post lanetomlane Posted August 9, 2020 Popular Post Share #1 Posted August 9, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Inspired by one of David Yarrow's images showing a Wild Horse at a beach in Iceland. Main image - Leica SL with 24-90mm Vario-Elmarit. Elephant taken in South Africa with a Nikon D810 and 600mm F4 Nikkor lens (sorry). Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 18 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/312142-icelandic-elephant/?do=findComment&comment=4024050'>More sharing options...
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Gelatino Posted August 9, 2020 Share #2 Posted August 9, 2020 Unlikely situation as "an orange tree in the Irish sky", but nothing can surprise me since you shot this traveller in the Lake district not long ago.🤔 BTW so nice colors. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted August 9, 2020 Share #3 Posted August 9, 2020 It would look better if the elephant was mirror imaged - the lighting on the ice behind it is from the LHS of the picture and has a hard shadow behind it, but the elephant is lit from the right...... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted August 9, 2020 1 hour ago, pgk said: It would look better if the elephant was mirror imaged - the lighting on the ice behind it is from the LHS of the picture and has a hard shadow behind it, but the elephant is lit from the right...... Thanks for the advise ... appreciated, as I failed to notice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted August 9, 2020 Share #5 Posted August 9, 2020 The composition works very well which probably masks the lighting discrepancy. Been there, done that, reviewed ..... and realised. That's probably why I now notice. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 9, 2020 Share #6 Posted August 9, 2020 What scotch will cause that?🤣 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted August 9, 2020 Share #7 Posted August 9, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Very nicely done. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruskkyle Posted August 10, 2020 Share #8 Posted August 10, 2020 Really nice work, and my initial thought was also that flipping either the foreground or background will give a more convincing lighting result. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted August 10, 2020 Share #9 Posted August 10, 2020 It looked so good to me I was waiting for the next photo showing it going through the ice. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted August 13, 2020 Share #10 Posted August 13, 2020 Hi Tom, An amusing composite. Any chance of re-posting with the elephant flipped so we can see how it looks please? Pete. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur Posted August 13, 2020 Share #11 Posted August 13, 2020 Ah the well traveled Addo elephant, searching for traces of the woolly mammoths perhaps? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share #12 Posted August 13, 2020 15 hours ago, farnz said: Hi Tom, An amusing composite. Any chance of re-posting with the elephant flipped so we can see how it looks please? Pete. Hi Pete I'll try and have a go tomorrow when I've a couple of hours free. Unfortunately I didn't save the individual layers in Photoshop so I'll have to do it from scratch. Trust you're keeping safe and well. BTW, it's your round next. Cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share #13 Posted August 14, 2020 On 8/13/2020 at 3:45 AM, farnz said: Hi Tom, An amusing composite. Any chance of re-posting with the elephant flipped so we can see how it looks please? Pete. Hi Pete Tried "flipping" the elephant and then the background but neither worked compositionally, because of the elephant's trunk and the position of the icebergs. Best I could do was to eliminate the shadows and burn-in some of the original dark areas. Originally produced as a quick bit of fun (following on from my elephant in the Lake District - image included); maybe I should look for a better background and have a serious go. Cheers Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/312142-icelandic-elephant/?do=findComment&comment=4026810'>More sharing options...
farnz Posted August 14, 2020 Share #14 Posted August 14, 2020 Thanks for trying, Tom. I'm particularly impressed with Barbar's reflection and how you've blended it in so expertly. I haven't worked out how to drink through a face mask yet but I hope we can have a few before too long. Ravi's threatening to come over in October too. Pete. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share #15 Posted August 14, 2020 32 minutes ago, farnz said: Thanks for trying, Tom. I'm particularly impressed with Barbar's reflection and how you've blended it in so expertly. I haven't worked out how to drink through a face mask yet but I hope we can have a few before too long. Ravi's threatening to come over in October too. Pete. Yeah, I noticed Ravi's intention, please include me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted May 11, 2022 Share #16 Posted May 11, 2022 Hello Tom, I think that all of the photos are very nice. Especially the first 1. "Artistic License", you know. Painters do it on a regular basis. Go to any museum & look around for a while .Sometimes painters do this, for example, when they are painting landscapes. They might like a scene very much but what they like may be different at different times of the day, as the Sun travels across the sky. So, sometimes, they might paint a tree "over there" only in the morning. Because they like how the angle to the Sun shows it off. And then they may paint another tree "somewhere else in the scene" only in the afternoon. Because of the angle of the Sun at that time. Just before the Pandemic, in early 2020, I went to a gallery opening where 1 of the paintings that was 1 of the foci of the show, was a landscape where the painter showed a Sunny day with shadows indicating that the Sun in that painting was coming from about 5 (five) different directions at the same time. It is a very nice painting. Artistic license. By the way, I think that Pete's idea of "flipping the elephant" in Picture #1 might look nice. Tip of the trunk pointing to the sky & all. Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 12, 2022 Share #17 Posted May 12, 2022 Delightful. Well done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted May 12, 2022 Share #18 Posted May 12, 2022 On 8/12/2020 at 9:45 PM, farnz said: Hi Tom, An amusing composite. Any chance of re-posting with the elephant flipped so we can see how it looks please? Pete. Just turn your monitor upside down.... Or stand on your head. 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl_valiquet Posted May 18, 2022 Share #19 Posted May 18, 2022 How about this : A cloud obscurs the sun’s light on the elephant. It is in the shadow. The ice, lit by the sun, reflects its light on the left side of the beast. The left side of the elephant being the right side for the viewer. ( Brent, I turned the computer upside down and came up with this.) I personally am impressed by your montage Tom. I guess when one puts an image out there, he is sort of walking on thin ice. Oh and thanks for putting me on David Yarrow. I did not know of him and of his montages. Just my 2 cents worth: what if you made this image in B&W. Contrasty. Dark. ….. All the best Carl. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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