Elephants - Please C&C

Took these on a recent trip to Sri Lanka. I'm still learning PP, And i'm thinking some colours are "off"

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They look almost HDR-ish. What PP did you use?

looks like pseudo HDR. That is, that you used a single RAW file to create each image. I personally really don't like this look as it makes for a slightly over cooked looking HDR, and it creates more visual artifacts, like heavier haloing and fringing. I'd like to see what you can do with the original photos as they are, without the HDR, and just tune them as regular photos.

the hdr looks to be suffering from ghosting. is it three or more actual shots? and if so did you use a tri pod. the exposure looks good and the lighting is even might not be the best candidate for hdr. hdr works best with still objects with more extreme tonal ranges

Thanks for the comments - I was using HDR toning in cs5, don't really know what i'm doing.

Is this better? edited in camera raw

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see the histagram for this pic adjust so there is a true black and white

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