These elephants were taking a mud bath in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe at sunset when I laid on the ground to take a low angled perspective shot. At the time, I was allowed to do that. I really liked the way their wet bodies were glistening in the low angled sunlight. A rainbow came out but it wasn't where I wanted it. So I took a separate shot of it and then using Photoshop, placed it behind the elephants. Had the rainbow been right behind the elephants to begin with, it would have been impossible to keep both the animals and the rainbow sharply in focus with a long lens. This is one of the problems with telephoto lenses. They make distant subjects fill the frame, which is great, but we pay a price for that. The price is we can't capture what we see; we never see out of focus backgrounds with our eyes. The settings were 1/250, f/8, 1600 ISO.
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