When I saw this statue last week, I was amused by the pumpkin decoration for Halloween, but what I was really interested in capturing was the water:
ISO 800 80mm 0ev f/13 1/80
I had used an f-stop of 13 to capture as much detail in the scene as possible. That ended up being a mistake because in the original, which I will put at the bottom of this post, there is too much detail in the grasses behind the elephant. I chose a shutter speed of 80 because I wanted some of the water to be frozen and some of it to still be in motion. That speed and the harsh light helps the water stand out in this photo.
The background I never managed to completely solve, but I did take some steps which I think helped. A fiddled around quite a bit in Photoshop, but for the…
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