Canyonlands n.p., Utah. Practica MTL3, Pentacon 50/1.8, Fuji Super 200, scanned from a print.

-- Zdenek Bakstein (zb@zzz.cz), September 21, 1998

Answers

That's an interesting subject you found. The main thing the picture needs is more separation from the background somehow. Maybe you could have the dark area in the background more out of focus or perhaps an angle that makes the elephants seem to be coming toward the camera rather than this straight side-on view.

I think what I'm really seeing is that the angle formed by the "back" of the "elephants" is the same as the angle formed by the shadow in the background. That makes the subject blend with the background to my eye.

-- Brent Hutto (BHutto@InfoAve.Net), September 21, 1998.

Brent, if I made the elephants come to the camera, the smaller one would become hidden behind the bigger one and also the shape of the two rocks would become 'unreadable'. I think that only an earlier light would help - the background would be darker (it was very close behind the objects and hard to manipulate the DOF with 50mm lens - there was no place to go farther and use a longer one) and the shadow of the background rock would lay right behind the objects.. Well, maybe I was at the right place but not at the right time. Thanks a lot for your comment.

-- Zdenek Bakstein (zb@zzz.cz), October 21, 1998.