Ellora is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India. It is one of the largest rock-cut Hindu temple cave complexes in the world, featuring Hinduism in particular and few Buddhist and Jain monuments with Artwork dating from the 600–1000 CE period. Cave 16 features the largest single monolithic rock excavation in the world, the Kailash temple, a chariot shaped monument dedicated to Lord Shiva. The Kailash temple excavation also features sculptures depicting the gods, goddesses found in Hinduism as well as relief panels summarizing the two major Hindu Epics.
Equipment used: Canon Rebel T1i
Camera settings: f/5.6,iso 100, 1/25s, 18mm Focal Length
Lighting conditions: Daylight Afternoon
Post-processing steps/software used: None
Accessories used (e.g. filters, tripods): Not on Tripod but camera was at rest . Not handheld.
Reason: I was looking for a place where I can take a large section of the Ellora Cave with the broken Elephant in the foreground, until I found this place. Given the limitation of my lens I went as wide as I could to take this image. I always like to have people in my travel images as it is the people that make life interesting, transform a particular place and brings diversity and variation in life with their individual thoughts and culture.
This round’s discussion is now closed! 6 comments posted
Tom Tauber
This is a remarkable place and I have been fortunate to visit it as well. As you explain, it's hard to get far enough away to get the whole monument into the frame. The people not only provide scale to that enormous monolithic temple structure, but also specks of color due to the saris Indian women wear. Posted: 06/20/2021 13:55:32
Margaret Sprott
This is a very interesting image and given the difficulties with photographing there, you did extremely well. Your explanations are helpful and as I look at the image I see more and more details. I always like to see images like this because I'm sure I'll never get to see the real thing. Posted: 06/20/2021 20:40:05
Phyllis Peterson
This a an incredible place! It's difficult to take it all in. But I think you found a vantage point to give an overall view of what there is to see. At first, I felt you cut off one of the towers at the top, but then I realized that there was a bright-colored sari at the bottom that might have been cut off. The people do add interest to the image. It definitely makes me want to visit. Good job with the exposure and focus throughout. Posted: 06/22/2021 11:11:02
Carolyn Todd-Larson
An excellent photo travel image and an intriguing place. I see the difficulty of fitting it all in but you did as good a job as you could to capture the scene. I'm wondering if perhaps you could bring out the shadowed areas a bit using Lightroom or camera raw. I think there might be some detail there that would be interesting. Nice job! Posted: 06/22/2021 11:20:26
David Somali-Chow
This is an interesting travel photo. I would love to visit the site. Posted: 06/29/2021 17:04:13
John Larson
You have done well to capture as much of the scene as you could. An even wider lens like 10mm or a full frame camera would have helped. Another thought would be to break it up into pieces and try to emphasize different aspects of the area. Posted: 06/29/2021 20:47:23
