Zebra Portrait

[Rachel Hollander]

I think the nature of zebra's coloring and stripes lends to trying different comps. Here's one where I tried basically straight down the barrel. At first I thought having the other zebra perpendicular in the rear was a negative but now after a little cropping, I think it may be a benefit. Taken in Etosha National Park, Namibia. This was late morning and the light was a bit harsh.

Canon 7D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/640
f13
ISO 400
HH from safari vehicle, cropped for comp, levels, curves, selective color and sharpening in CS6.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Robert Amoruso]

Good detail on the blacks and whites so light not a hindrance here Rachel.

I feel the BG Zebra works and would be better then the ground. I would have liked to not seen the legs of the FG Zebra and to do that a lower POV would be required to have done that. Cropping now gets to close to the nose.

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Robert, unfortunately I was as low as I could be in the vehicle but I agree a little bit lower would have been better.

[Sid Garige]

Rachel,

I kind of like zebra in the background. It makes interesting background IMO.

-Sid

[Diane Miller]

Lovely! The BG zebra is perfect! The bright area between the legs and on the LR corner could be darkened to match the BG in the LL corner and you have perfection!

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Rachel, I would suggest going tighter to make those confusing stripes work better. My thinking was similar to Roberts, and so a 16 x9 I think may fit our thinking? Suprised the nose isn't so sharp considering the f stop? Perhaps a hint more sharpening?

TFS
Steve

[Morkel Erasmus]

Good thinking here Rachel...
I too would have preferred not to have the legs as obviously cut off but at this angle this is a given.
Light well handled. I like Steve's crop suggestion...

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions. Here's a repost with the 16x9 crop and a little more selective sharpening as suggested by Steve.

Thanks again,
Rachel

[Steve Kaluski]

Rachel I would just take a sliver off the top & RHS as the is a slight light corner creeping in, likewise bottom right. :S3:

[Morkel Erasmus]

RP works for me - ditto Steve's corner observations :5