Photographed at Lake Nakuru NP, late afternoon but not into the golden time. I was trying to get images of the yellow billed oxpeckers with varying animals. Cropped from horizontal to vertical.
7D; 100-400 @ 400; ISO200; 1/400; f5.6
Zebra and friend
Photographed at Lake Nakuru NP, late afternoon but not into the golden time. I was trying to get images of the yellow billed oxpeckers with varying animals. Cropped from horizontal to vertical.
7D; 100-400 @ 400; ISO200; 1/400; f5.6
lovely pose , details and excellent zebra friend here
TFS
I wish the OX-P was in focus..........lovely image, though.
Hilary,
I love this image. I like the head angle on the zebra, and it is nice that the bird is looking at the camera too. I agree about the bird being out of focus. Do you have another frame with the bird in focus so you could mosaic the two? Also the zebra's nose merges with the dark stripes. A little curves adjustment should fix that.
Roger
Thanks Harshad and Kirk.
Roger, I can do the curves adjustment for the zebra nose but all the series of images focussed on the zebra head so I stuffed up on the in focus ox peckers in them all. I sometimes just don't think it all through! I have other ox pecker images but they are at different times of day so getting a seamless mosaic would be more difficult than the image probably warrants. But I'll have a look at the images again because the challenge of making it work would be a great learning experience.
Like the head turn with good lighting on that side, would have wished for greater DOF with the Oxpecker.
TFS
Not sure that I see the point of this, if you were trying to get Oxpeckers then this did not work.
As Kirk said the Oxpecker is not in focus, yoy needed far more that F5.6.
Thank you Ken for your observations. I was actually trying to get grazing animals with oxpeckers, the main focus was the animal otherwise I would, of course, have focussed on the bird.
Hi Hilary, I rather like this and having the OOF OP is perfect. The HA is enough to convey what is happening and if both were to be in focus the whole point of the image would have been lost. The BG gives good separation and nice depth of contrasting colours.
I might be tempted to give the subject another round of selective sharpening, slightly increase the blacks/brightness and punch the colours a fraction more to bring out the nice 'chestnut' colouring of the eye. Certainly works for me.
TFS
Steve
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Lovely portrait...the oxpecker adds nicely...Nice and sharp and the ISO well handled
Originally Posted by Hilary Hann
Thank you Ken for your observations. I was actually trying to get grazing animals with oxpeckers, the main focus was the animal otherwise I would, of course, have focussed on the bird.
Not to sure if this explanation helps, if your intention was as you state why would you not wish for the Oxpecker to be in focus, as well as whatever animal it was with?
To my mind the answer is relatively simple there is insufficient DOF to make this work.
gorgeous light and IQ on the zebbie, Hilary
I myself also wish the bird was more in focus, or otherwise more OOF - if you know what I mean?
Thanks Morkel, I understand completely.
Bird or no bird, I think this is a very nice portrait of a zebra. BG colors are a nice match and I really like the look of the vertical stripes on his face and the texture of the black and brown portion of his nose.
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