Hello, this image was taken a couple of years ago and I like the format, however, the color is not pleasing to me. I would like to image to 'pop' more with more contrast without loosing the shadows.
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks...Terry Johnson
Hi Terry - welcome to the Wildlife Forum! Please always include your exif data in your post and tell us about the shooting conditions and any significant post processing. It helps us in the critique process but more importantly lets us make suggestions for improvement in the field as well. Btw are these captive? I think I see part of a fence behind the zebra on the left.
It's a fun image. I do wish the zebra on the left had cooperated a little more and turned its head slightly toward camera rather than away. I would not crop any from the bottom because you have room for the virtual legs there. I took the liberty of doing a rp in which I darkened the greens by 20 points in hue/saturation layer and I also very roughly selected the zebras and gave the midtones a slight boost in levels by moving the middle slider to the right to .95.
Terry, the best way to get the most out of BPN is to actively participate including adding your thoughts to other people's images. Your comments don't have to be of a technical nature, just tell us what you like or don't like about an image. We recommend that you comment on at least 3-5 other images each time you post an image of your own.
welcome to the forum.
3 zebras all look somewhere else, looks like a Outlook to me
I would leave the crop, to give the legs room to step on for the FG zebra. Rachel did a nice job on this one to boost it a bit.
Thanks to all of you for the gracious comments and Rachel, I like what you did to the image. I am aware of how to do the edits you performed so I will experiment with those enhancements further. The image was taken at Wildlife Safari, a reserve and park in Winston, Oregon. I took the image from the car and positioned the car to capture the natural positioning of the zebras. The background zebras were stationary, the little guy in the foreground was moving so I positioned the car at the intersection, hoping he would continue to move to my camera location. He did so, and made the run toward the camera at the correct moment, much to my delight!
The camera was a Nikon D7000 with a Nikon 18-200mm, ISO-100, F5.3, 1/200 of a second, 112 mm, handheld. Middle of an overcast day.
Sorry for being late to the party here, Terry.
I like the overall composition and wish the left-most zebra as viewed had played ball and posed like the one on our right.
Rachel's repost is nice, and with zebras I like to usually try a monochrome and see how it turns out (their coats lend them to this medium quite nicely).
Welcome here, and as Rachel stated we'd love to get your builds on some of the other photos posted...