Icelandic Elephant

[lanetomlane]

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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).

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[Gelatino]

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.

[pgk]

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......

[lanetomlane]

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.

[pgk]

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.

[Guest]

What scotch will cause that?🤣

[Louis]

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Very nicely done.

[ruskkyle]

Really nice work, and my initial thought was also that flipping either the foreground or background will give a more convincing lighting result.

[fotografr]

It looked so good to me I was waiting for the next photo showing it going through the ice.

[farnz]

Hi Tom,

An amusing composite.  Any chance of re-posting with the elephant flipped so we can see how it looks please?

Pete.

[Bateleur]

Ah the well traveled Addo elephant, searching for traces of the woolly mammoths perhaps? 

[lanetomlane]

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

[lanetomlane]

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

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[farnz]

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.

[lanetomlane]

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.

[Michael Geschlecht]

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

 

[stuny]

Delightful.  Well done.

[fotografr]

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. 😉

[carl_valiquet]

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.

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