Woodland Park Zoo - Staring Zebra

Last Friday I was at Woodland Park Zoo shooting their Jungle Party for Seattle Metroplitan magazine and as I was headed back on the path to the South gate where my car was parked I saw this zebra just standing there on the ’savanah’. So, of course, I had to unpack the camera and take his picture.

This was shot with my Nikon D3 and Nikkor 200mm f2.0 lens. (1/160th @ f2.0, 6400 ISO, hand-held, DX crop on)

It was just past dusk, about 9:30PM, and I knew I was going to need a decent shutter speed to squeeze off a clean shot of the zebra from that distance so I upped the ISO to 6400. The D3 is just amazing. Look at that grain! It looks like film!

The Zoo’s Jungle Party was fun! Look for images from it in Seattle Metropolitan’s September issue.