Monochrome Zebra Portrait

[Rudi van den Heever]

I played around with some shallow depth of field recently at Rietvlei Nature Reserve... Unfortunately the 500mm could just go to F4, but happy with the results...

Canon EOS 7D and 500mm F4 L lens
Focal length: 500mm
Exposure time: 1/800
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 100
Exposure bias: 1
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure: aperture priority

Conversion done in Silver Efex Pro...

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Rudi,
great shot and the very off center placement of the main area works very good here.

Very good job in all terms………… well done.

TFS Andreas

[Marc Mol]

Simple but effective and well done here Rudi, with good DOF and contrast on this conv.

[Andre Pretorius]

Hi Rudi

Comp very unusual, works for me

DOF very well applied.

Congrats.

Andre

[Gabriela Plesea]

Superb image Rudi, the eye and those long, long lashes are just pure magic! From very sharp to a soft blur, my eyes love what they see...beautifully processed and presented, congratulations!

Kind regards,

[Ashleigh Scully]

Hi this is really great I like how you composed this and the dof you chose works well. Great job.

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Nice DOF experiment indeed! Just wondering - the width of the left side is a bit overwhelming for me - how about a 2nd crop - square and/or vertical?

[Sid Garige]

Rudy,
Just perfect. Excellent crop. Perfect focus on where it is needed. Great tones in B&W.
-Sid

[Morkel Erasmus]

This works well, mate. Like it loads. Seen many interpretations of this one but the "wider pano" feel is great here.