Tusker/Kabini

[Praveen Siddannavar]

The guy was grazing near the back waters, and later he suddenly charged at us. I managed to make a video that will & try and upload on FB. I know it's a tight frame, ideally a zoom lens was needed to capture him in full.

Camera - Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, 500mm

Av 4
Tv 1/250
ISO 800
Focal length 500mm
Full frame
Jeep's roof top rod support
Date and Time : 28th Jan'12 @ 5:38pm

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice image, large horizontal tusks.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Suraj Sreedhar]

Nice image.Wish you had a small lens.
TFS

[Mrudul Godbole]

It becomes a challenge to photograph a elephant with a tele lens if it is very close. You could have tried to include only the forelegs with more space on the left. The details are nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I agree that it is tough to get the huge frame of an elephant when you are clicking with a tele lens. Either we need to backoff or use a lower tele or a zoom lens.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[V S Sankar]

Good to see a tusker like this one here.These are the only animals who makes us long for a shorter lens!

Praveen how was the post processing done.Did you try to brighten darker areas in the frame(like the area near the right hind leg?)......And whats FB.Iam eagre to watch the video.....

Regards

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Thanks all for the comments

Shankar - FB is Face Book Incompatible Browser | Facebook (www.facebook.com), a social networking site. I have havent increased the brightness, very basic PP has been done in Lightroom.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Majestic fella! I wish you had the time to shoot some picturtes with the 100-400.

tfs