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James Shadle
11-16-2008, 11:58 PM
Congratulations Steve Wheeler!
Best of a Bad Situation?


Hello all... Wasn't really quite sure where to post this. If it needs to be moved just let me know. I haven't been around in a while. Job change and other things have kept me pretty busy.

Trying to make the best of a bad lighting situation here. This Zebra is in a zoo and the image captured just before noon. Harsh sun light from camera left, perpendicular to the shot angle, with a very dark background…. Lots of contrast to begin with. On the front end I dialed in a fair amount of exposure compensation knowing it would keep me from not only blowing out the whites, but also help under expose the already dark BG. Also stopped it down a fair amount. On the back end in LightRoom... Slight crop, Increase Blacks, Clone out some very small areas of light coming through the tree canopy in the BG, bring up the white end of the curve a bit... but the original image isn’t that far from what you see here.

I personally love the way it came out and the result is what I had in mind at the time. Always curious what those with a better eye and more experience think!

40D & 100-400 @ 400mm, ISO 500, f14 @ 1/800, -5/3 EV

Manos Papadomanolakis
11-17-2008, 11:03 AM
Congratulations Steve!!!

Steve Wheeler
11-17-2008, 11:48 AM
Thank you Manos... And a VERY BIG THANK YOU to the staff here at BPN... This is indeed an honor!

Steve

Alfred Forns
11-17-2008, 04:08 PM
Hi Steve this image was love at first sight for me Big Congrats !!!!!!!

Steve Wheeler
11-17-2008, 07:09 PM
Thank you so much Alfred... I appreciate that a great deal!

Steve

Axel Hildebrandt
11-17-2008, 08:44 PM
Congratulations, Steve!

Gus Cobos
11-17-2008, 10:49 PM
Congratulations Steve...:cool:

Steve Wheeler
11-17-2008, 11:17 PM
Axel... Gus... Thanks for the thumbs up guys!

Steve

Leroy Laverman
11-19-2008, 04:29 PM
Congratulations Steve. Well done.

Dieter Schaefer
11-19-2008, 05:46 PM
Certainly out of the box - excellent choice for image of the week. Big congratulations Steve!

Steve Wheeler
11-19-2008, 06:32 PM
Leroy... Dieter... Thanks guys!

Steve

Jason Searle
11-20-2008, 02:01 PM
Congratulations

Mike Lentz
11-21-2008, 10:36 AM
Very nice, Steve! Its the mysterious Zebra!

Doug Brown
11-23-2008, 09:58 PM
Awesome image Steve! Congrats!

Bruce Murden
11-23-2008, 10:10 PM
Congrats! Great pose, and wonderful in this lighting and tone!

Robert Amoruso
11-24-2008, 05:13 PM
Very cool.

Fabs Forns
11-25-2008, 10:01 PM
Very clever, congratulations!