Photography Thailand Forum

[katjuschka]

Sorry, I did not post a pic, 'coz that's my problem...

I tried to take pictures from the elephants in thailand, especially the ones who are compelled to walk through the streets of Bangkok each night, but I found it really difficult to take a good shot, 'coz they are grey and the night is black with lots of neon lights ... at the end I noticed that I do regularly missed my primordial aim to focus on the elephant (even when I did, at the end u just see all the lights and with luck maybe sth like the silhouette of the elephant).

So, here my call for anybody who has more luck (or professional background), please post your pics, I really would appreciate this...

[anna]

Katjuschka, glad you posted the question.  I have the same problem, too.  I've even tried it where I just include the elephant's and people's feet but still no luck.   Let's hope we get some ideas from the members.

[David Procter]

Its funny how an elephant can pass me in the street here in Thailand and I barely look twice! If the same thing happened in a provincial town in England people would probably follow it all day! Monks and elephants are very photographed and very Thai/Asian and they have to be in some special circumstances or light if I'm going click.
I can appreciate the difficulty in taking pics...maybe you should try partial metering and shoot on manual and wait until elly is standing still. Didnt we learn about this at Monday's class Anna?

[anna]

David, we did learn partial metering last Monday but mind you, we are dealing here with elly, a huge moving subject, and surrounded by people going in all directions, vendors' goods, not to mention low lighting.  This would be a good question for our teacher on Monday.

[Marc Schultz]

Did someone say elephants?

[David Salmanowitz]

Fine shot Mark. Really like the layered colors of the sky and the golden tips of the green grass in the foreground, they play well off of each other. Here is an elephant shot I barely had time to take last year, as a friend was calling me to the window to come look--then it was a mad dash to put on the telephoto lens and tele converter.

[Marc Schultz]

Great shot David! Very charming and entertaining.

[David Salmanowitz]

Thanks Marc--I do not think it was so entertaining for the elephant though, as he was doing the occasional 360o turn.    Here is another photo of the elephant probably not in the happiest mood.