Zebra crossing

[User Name]

Taken with Canon 30D, Sigma APO 80-400mm F4.5-5.6 EX DG OS.
Effects added by my wife, using Picasa

 

[Grayman]

I quite like the effect in this picture..quite unusual, but works for me. Looks a bit soft but I think any sharper and the effect would be spoilt.

 

[Fionab]

yeah i like it as well nicelydone

 

[OptimusBri]

I really like this. It works great in black and white

 

[mameemonsters]

nice one..he's posing there nicely for you..

 

[User Name]

Thanks for the feedback,

What about this one?

 

[User Name]

Or this one?

ETA: What I've been trying to do is recreate some of the images / effects in the book "On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa" by Nick Brandt (it's on Amazon).
He uses selective focusing and graduations a lot in his B+W only book, which I think really work for this type of image, especially elephants where the texture of the skin is lost in a colour image.

 

[mr_pants]

I love the (near) symmetry of the last two. I think that maybe I'd like the last one cropped to reflect that.

 

[MG TF 135]

Agreed. The second shot (non turned heads) is fantastic. Maybe a slightly tighter crop, to remove the black mark in the top left though. Black and white really works too as i imaging the grasses are quite a bland colour this time of year anyway.

 

[rambits]

Thanks for the feedback,

What about this one?

really love this one, save as background