OUR APPRENTICE says…

This shot [opposite] is another good example of needing to set a fairly small aperture to ensure that all of the elephants were sharp – in this case f/14. At ISO800 this gave me a shutter speed of just 1/250 sec, which was in danger of being perilously slow, but again Lou’s Wimberley gimbal heads came to the rescue. For this particular shot, Lou encouraged me to crop in tight, to completely eliminate any background and create a more graphic image. Because of the slow shutter speed, the image is not quite as sharp as I’d like it to be, but the fantastic late-evening light, and the way that the adults are interacting with the younger elephant, more than make up for this.