Tried out the D810-Image captured at Zulu Nyala Private Reserve.
There was something different with this Zebra in the sea of stripes...
Nikon D810 with 70-200 @ 200mm
1/1600@ f5,6
ISO 360
0 EV
Focussed on the nose, not the eye- worked around the nose...
Yes, a bigger F would have given more DOF, not what I wanted.
If I focused on the eye, the nose would be soft- what is more effective for viewer? ( Audience might be non-photograghers)
Would a B&W conversion be more attention grabbing?
I like how you isolated him, Andre - a quirky shot for sure.
How are you finding the D810? I think it's Nikon's best value-for-money camera, for both landscapers and wildlife photographers! Still need to swop my D800 for one, but for now the funds need to be put to other uses.
Hi Andre - I like Morkel's word of a "quirky" look. Perhaps focusing between the eye and nose would have worked to have both sharp. I would like to see a b&w because I find the green in the bg drawing my eye a bit away from the zebras. That effect would be eliminated in a conversion.
Morkel, still prefer the D3S on the 300&500. More robust, "bigger" bodies feels good in hand, can take a bump or two.
Can live with the frame rate on D810, I do not like making videos with photographs. The biggest pitfall is ISO- noise creeping in from 2000.
On the other hand the 70-200 f2,8 not so thirsty for light as the bigger lenses.
Interesting... Saturday afternoon late Gabriela(D5), Carl (1DX) and me (D3S) were shooting at a leopard in LOW light- Carl went to 60 000+(have not seen his images), Gabriela worked on two-
one @ 20 000 and one @ 40 000; my max was 12 800 as you know. IQ was not much different in the low light, I just had to swop to video a few minutes before them- they could still shoot, but IQ only good for FB.
PS- still having the scenario were some images in a burst does not have FP, although frame rate 9FPS max. Brendon Cremer says he never has this problem, but he uses only front focusing....???
Thank you Rachel- a certain well known Mr Detail will not agree re the focal point ( especially @ 5,6), although I was tempted..
Will work on a B&W conversion, will post soon- off to kitchen now to make a Beef Wellington as per mr Ramsey..
Andre the op is the one for me,would not have noticed Rachel's point about sharpness between nose and eye but I can see it.Think it's a well thought out image which perhaps a lot of people might not see,me included.
with an interesting composition, I like the 2 rear with their heads up gives a nice balance and however, would have loved this even better if they had both their heads down granting the quirky one even more of a standout.
The mono conversion suits very well.
I agree with you on the D810 and have now basically allocated mine (since buying the D5 & D500) to the 24-70 f/2.8 for real closeup wildlife and landscapes, for image quality below ISO 3200, nothing can touch it.
Hi Andre, my first thought was, try a B/W conversion, glad you did as it works well. For perhaps a stronger comp, having a 'sea' of Zebra might have been better with no habitat in the BKG???
Cool concept Andre,beautifully executed,I also like the sea of zebras idea ,but you had what you had. For me at least the center of interest seems to pop more in the B&W but I like both. Very clever Andre, I feel this image wouldn't have occurred to me,all credit.