We’d come through rain, a lot of rain, to get to this spot. Soaking wet, pools of water collected in my guide-provided poncho. We came round a corner to discover about twenty giraffe, spread across a broad flat landscape. I carefully pulled my camera from beneath he puddle-filled poncho, spilling water all over my travel buddies in the process, and began to fire away.
When I saw these two giraffe, I knew exactly what I wanted. Both of them with their heads up, pointing towards the center of the photo. I didn’t actually manage to get this in the same photo. So when it came to producing this image, I wound up using two sets of bracketed photos. So I had two with regular exposure, two at -2 and two at +2.
I used Photomatix’s ghosting removal tool to pick the images of each giraffe I wanted and voila, the image I had in my head in Africa was now on my screen in Bermuda.
2 cool things about this photo; 1-the curve of the giraffe’s neck and 2- that it’s actually 2 pics in one! Otherwise….
what ? you couldn’t sit and wait and get them to stand there naturally ! haha
The giraffe in the forefront looks younger… just looking at his spots in comparison to the other one which was darker…and looks more mature
If I had been driving myself I’d have stopped and waited!
well this turned out perfectly – would never have known you put the shot together – well done JP
Great work in combining the two and a lovely close up of these beautiful animals.