Photographer’s Notes
Went to Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo today looking for zoo animals and chanced upon this opportunity to showcase an interesting texture. I know elephant hide’s been done before and may even be done again in this challenge. Hopefully this will be good enough to stand out from the crowd.
I love my 70 - 200 lens. this was taken from about 50 feet.
I know there will be folks that will comment that this would be so much better in B&W or desaturated. I tried it that way but I felt it would be like stealing part of this noble animal's soul to steal away his color.
Post Processing
Rotate (90 degrees CCW)
Reduce Noise (Neat Image)
Sharpen (Lab color method with CS2 Smart Sharpen)
Crop
Auto Levels
Auto Contrast
Auto Color
Resize (Bicubic sharper)
Hue/Saturation(+10)
Save for Web
Camera Data
Nikon D70
2005/07/13 16:47:59.9
JPEG (8-bit) Fine
Image Size: Large (3008 x 2000)
Lens: VR 70-200mm F/2.8 G
Focal Length: 160mm
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
1/45 sec - F/2.8
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 800
Optimize Image: Vivid
White Balance: Auto
AF Mode: AF-S
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Color Mode: Mode IIIa (sRGB)
Tone Comp: Auto
Hue Adjustment: 0°
Saturation: Normal
Sharpening: Auto
Image Comment:
Noise Reduction: OFF
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Very cool!!!! Alot ike one I wanted to submit. I got it while shooting the zoo challenge, but when I went back to get it for the textures challenge, he wouldn't pose again :( Anyway, yours is probably much better, so it worked out :) Excellent job. The texture just jumps off the page at you!!! 10
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