Running Zebra

[Stephen Earle]

1D Mark IV
100-400mm @ 400mm
1/400 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 640

Image made in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Pretoria, South Africa

[peter delaney]

A beauty Steven.... love it

[Hilary Hann]

Lovely lighting here and nice action pose on the zebra foal. I would personally tone down or clone out the very light diagonal stalk in the lhs, but guess that is an individual choice.

[Alfred Forns]

Sweet image Stephen Great feel and sure like the razor sharp head clearly visible !!! Agree with Hilary on that light stalk, easy removal !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Harshad Barve]

beautiful image , loving the running pose and color scheme here
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

Steve,

I have always wanted an image of this type but have never been able to get anything near to this, so to me this is really impressive:)

Grass does not bother me too much, but it looks relatively easy to disguise it.

BTW Sabyasachi did some tests om MK IV and found that there was more noise at the intermediate ISO's, unfortunately I cannot find the link, why not drop him a PM?

[Marc Mol]

Beautiful sweet light and earthy colour Stephen, well done.
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

beautiful foal in beautiful light...congrats on the new toy :D

[Steve Kaluski]

A beautiful moment capture well, with good vision and tenderness.

TFS
Steve

[Stephen Earle]

Thanks for commenting everyone. Ken, thanks for the tip.

I've only been out twice with bthe MKIV and had a look at shots taken at ISO 800 and ISO 640 respectively. I couldn't tell the difference so I've changed my settings already.

I've mostly used a 40D, 50D and 7D (and I have about 30 MKIII files) so the noise performance of the MKIV simply blew me away! No nr was applied to this image at all and it remained noise free even after three rounds of sharpening. That is simply impossible with 7D files.

[John Ippolito]

Beautiful image in it's quality of light, composition, and energy captured. Excellent!

[Rachel Hollander]

Like the lighting, mood and comp very much.

TFS,
Rachel

[Stephen Earle]

Thank you Rachel and John.