Driving home from work, I noticed a little circus less than a block from my house. Hoped they'd have an elephant so that I could retake a photo I shot a couple of years ago at the zoo. They did, so I did. Didn't like any of the shots that much from the first day, so I went back the next afternoon.
This is cropped from the center of one of those pics. After doing the standard editing fixes -- cropping, levels adjustment, etc. I was playing around with the unsharp mask filter -- setting some of the choices to absurd levels. When I hit this, I loved it. I think the levels are something like 100%, 100 pixels, and 4 levels.
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ohhhh my! I still haven't seen this color in person but this is stunning! Strong textural details, rich coloring, well exposed, well focused. Just what appears to be a sun spot or sumtin' near the eye bothers me. Of course that can be fixed up easily enough outside of the challenge. Would like to see some catch-light in the big baby's eye. But all that said I end with "very nice."
I love the detail and the colors in this shot. I think it's an interesting crop on this too, I'd hang it in my house. But then, I like elephants.. :) Excellent texture and excellent concept of the challenge. 10 KDJ
WOW! what great texture and colors, too. then there's the composition and crispness, i really have nothing to suggest to do differently here. definitely in my top 5 this week, well done! :) -- gr8photos (10)
aftering reading the name and scrolling down to the picture, i thought how cute! the texture is exquisit! this picture, is soooo awesome. i really really really really like it. composition is greatr, excellent focus. great job!
This is a wonderful feeling of texture. Wish I had thought of it. I love the way you have cropped tightly and the lighting is perfect to show off the skin.
This kinda looks like you just too a picture of a painting. If so, I really hate it. I can't stand it when people take pictures of a picture. I will give you credit that other than the flash its hard to tell if this was just a picture of a painting or not. Their appears to be a flash reflection on the right.
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