David Kepley
October 2025 - Zebras Crossing the Landscape
About the Image(s)
I took this picture on a photo safari in Kenya last month. We saw a herd of zebras across a stream. They were nicely spaced out. I thought it worked well in B&W Do they stand out enough to your eye?
Settings: Canon R7 with a 200-800mm lens, shot at 288mm. 1/400 sec, f7.1, ISO 400. In post processing I cropped down to a pano and used the usual LRC sliders. I converted the image to B&W in LRC.
2 comments posted
Good Morning David
This a great image, I feel like I'm being cheated by the resolution though - I want to see it bigger! We have up to 1,024 KB file size, in case you're up for bumping that up a bit.
Anyway, I love your question about whether they stand out enough because I think the millions of years of evolution they've gone through has been to specifically keep them from standing out ;)
My opinion though, they're perfect. You can see them, but they don't look like little snowballs that you've tried to overemphasize. They have just enough highlights though that you can tell what they are against their surroundings and you're right, the spacing (and framing) is awesome.
I could see this being a big ol' wall print in someone's living room or gallery.
Thanks
Josh Posted: 10/11/2025 13:18:41
This a great image, I feel like I'm being cheated by the resolution though - I want to see it bigger! We have up to 1,024 KB file size, in case you're up for bumping that up a bit.
Anyway, I love your question about whether they stand out enough because I think the millions of years of evolution they've gone through has been to specifically keep them from standing out ;)
My opinion though, they're perfect. You can see them, but they don't look like little snowballs that you've tried to overemphasize. They have just enough highlights though that you can tell what they are against their surroundings and you're right, the spacing (and framing) is awesome.
I could see this being a big ol' wall print in someone's living room or gallery.
Thanks
Josh Posted: 10/11/2025 13:18:41
Hi, David. Wow, what a wonderful scene. Having only seen zebra in a zoo, it's wonderful to see so many together in their habitat. Posted: 10/19/2025 00:00:17