Zebra

[Ken Watkins]

A Zebra shows off the scar from his close escape.

Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, 2nd July 2012

EOS 1D MkIII

70-200mm MkII at 168

F4.4, ISO 400, 1/4000, EV -0.67

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - I've looked at this a couple of times and I just don't think the scar is that prominent or that interesting. I would prefer less of rear view and more of a head turn. Sorry.

TFS,
Rachel

[Ken Watkins]

Rachel,

Fair enough

[Andre van As]

Hi Ken
I guess the plastic surgery in that part of the world needs improving?

[Ken Watkins]

Andre,

This looks pretty good to me I have seen far worse:w3

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Ken,
nicely processed with good detail and sharpness this time. Technically a good one, the content is not as good , as the others stated above, in which i agree.

Cheers Andreas

[Ken Watkins]

Andreas,

Always nice to get one "right" now and again:t3 In what way do you think the processing is better than my normal ?

Can I take it that you do not like the head?

Perhaps I should not have mentioned the scar in the first place?

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Ken,
i talked about the sharpness which i quite like in this one, from time to time , you post images who could stand more sharpening that is all.
I did not even look to the scar , in this case unimportant i think.

[Ken Watkins]

Andreas,

The sharpness is of course down to personal taste, a very good photographer said to me that if it is not sharp at 100% then it never will be.

I also often forget to resharpen after converting and downsizing

[Andreas Liedmann]

Ken,
me or i think others too, will look at the image here, so there is no excuse for anything that is done wrong or not done in PP, that is all up to each and everyone who post images here. If the image is not sharp enough, we get sometimes comments on that circumstance,and still we all have different views and screens, so if i comment on missing sharpness, it is my personal feeling. So far so good, but if the majority say, ok a liitle bit more sharpening could improve the image, maybe the majority , is more right than i am , from the technical POV.
In the end , the photographer should decide how sharpness etc. he or she uses on the images.

[Marina Scarr]

The image is well exposed and sharp with nice colors and great light, however, it's just not working for me. The zebra is dead center and all I see is butt.

[Steve Canuel]

Glad to see you kept this in color Ken. I like the dark habitat across the top and coming partly down the sides. I don't mind the rear end pose but what I think is throwing off the "feel" of this one is how the rear end stripes are wider spaced. Kind of gives the zebra a distorted, misshapen look (if that makes sense).

[Ken Watkins]

Marina,

To my eyes the Zebra is not dead center (but not far short) do you think cropping from the LHS would add anything? More room to the right would just add more uninteresting bush.

Steve,
Thanks I think I see what you mean, and many thanks for pointing it out

[Steve Canuel]

Isn't that why they recommend larger people not wear horizontal stripes :bg3:?

[Ken Watkins]

Isn't that why they recommend larger people not wear horizontal stripes :bg3:?

Well it is certainly why I do not wear stripes:bg3: