Please don't tell me this is photoshopped

400dabuser wrote in post #9015012
D'uh, do elephants squint?

When you're that size, you do any damn thing you want. That is, that's not restricted by those @#$%^& chains.

20droger wrote in post #9015038
When you're that size, you do any damn thing you want. That is, that's not restricted by those @#$%^& chains.

Come again?

More about the original here and here.

waterj2 wrote in post #9019941
More about the original here and here.

The difference between them is striking. I know the "Dovina" in black image was taken with an large format camera (to be precise: 8x10 Deardorff; a monstrous 12-inch f4.5 lens; Tri-X film; 1/25 at f/16). You can see the typical shallow depth of field of the large format camera--only about 24 inches deep even at f/16.

The other image has depth of field extending the full length of the elephants to the rear wall. The camera was pulled about four times as far away, taking up only the lower half of the frame.

Classic Avedon. Its also the homepage for Richard. Link

someone must've said

"Manacle those beasts!", there was a error in the communication, and the hats were then added for effect

uh oh boss I thought you said MONOCLE the beasts

d'oh!

400dabuser wrote in post #9015012
D'uh, do elephants squint?

They do if you shove a monocle in their eye!