Zebra Abstract

[Rudi van den Heever]

Taken in Pilanesberg Nature Reserve, South Africa...

Equipment: Canon 7D and 500mm F4 L lens
Settings:1/1600s at F5.6 and ISO 200

[Hilary Hann]

Rudi, I like it very much. Lovely detail and super smooth background make for a nice abstract. There is a small white spot on the black stripe at the 8 o'clock position from the eye which I'd get rid of.

[Marc Mol]

Love the framing, colour & detail and super BG here Rudi.
TFS

[Lorant Voros]

A really cool image. Love the colors, detail and composition. It all works for me just fine. Well done,

Lorant

[Marina Scarr]

Love what you've done with this one. It is different and powerful.

[Nancy Bell]

The sharp, fine details of this slice of zebra and the unusual composition make this an exquisite image. Very creative and well thought out and executed.

[Ofer Levy]

I love this! Very effective. Maybe just a tiny boost in contrast and colours. WDYT?

[Rudi van den Heever]

Thanks for the positive feedback everyone!

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Rudi, really like the concept behind this and the simplicity of the image.

What you could try is to bring in both sliders in Levels (left & right) so they are just touching the base line, as this I feels adds a bit more pop to the image, however you can move them in more or less, just depends on personal preference. Do this as an adjustment layer as you can then just open the eye up a fraction, retaining that nice chestnut colour, but not to the point where you cann see your vehicle.

TFS
Steve

[Morkel Erasmus]

Lovely perspective here Rudi! Will work well as B&W too
Some good suggestions by Steve...and I like Ofer's repost, though if I were to make one I would bump contrast a tad.

[Rachel Hollander]

Rudi - well envisioned and carried out. The detail, color and bg are all great.

TFS,
Rachel

[Rudi van den Heever]

Followed Steve's advice... hope I have not overdone it... An improvement?

Thanks for the help everyone?

[Steve Kaluski]

Looks good to me Rudi, but you have the ultimate say, WDYT?

[Dumay de Boulle]

I like this a lot. Great BG and repost is tops...Very nice idea!

[Rudi van den Heever]

Thanks Dumay!

Sure a great idea to make it "pop" Steve... New at CS5 and fist had to do some reading on adjustment layers after your post!

Am I the only one that struggles to stay logged on to BPN?????????

[Grant Atkinson]

Great work here with the composition adn the repost...super shot Rudi
cheers
Grant

[Jamie Douglas]

I really like this composition Rudi and the repost has the right amount of pop. Simple yet powerful image.

[John Blumenkamp]

Absolutely love this... creative composition and the details look amazing against that nice background. Amazing image! I think the repost looks great.

[Rudi van den Heever]

Thanks for the postive feedback eveyone!

[Robert Amoruso]

Rudi,

Great out-of-the-box thinking here.

[Rudi van den Heever]

Thanks Robert! Difficult to please the BPN community!

[DanWalters]

Very creative image! Like the clean background. Really brings out the lashes.

[Rudi van den Heever]

Appreciated Dan!