@Denise - The animal shots are all with my EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS; the one of the kids is with a rented EF85mm f/1.2L USM.
@Banman - I love the shot of the Tiger! I mean they are all good, but the Tiger is fantastic.
Paul
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@Denise - The animal shots are all with my EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS; the one of the kids is with a rented EF85mm f/1.2L USM.
@Banman - I love the shot of the Tiger! I mean they are all good, but the Tiger is fantastic.
Paul
Wow, everyone has contributed some great shots to this thread. My kids are in heaven!
Here is probably my last round of the year. Getting really cold around here and probably going to snow soon. [:(] Plus I haven't figured out how to explain that their favorite elephant died last week. [:S]
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Great pictures Jayson - the last one is my favorite!
Paul
This is a couple of Rhino's from the Louisville Zoo treated with Fractalius......I took this with a 40D and the 300mm 2.8L in 2009.
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Great capture of the grizzly Denise. I like it. I don't think I have ever seen a black rhino in captivity. I was sure there was one somewhere, but I haven't seen it.
+1 [Y] Great pics, Denise!
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There are a couple of hundred worldwide. I recall seeing them at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, although I didn't take any pictures of them (we lived fairly close to there for a few years). The only photo of a black rhino that I have was taken in a somewhat larger enclosure than you'd find in a zoo - theNgorongoroCrater in Tanzania:
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Adult Male Lion
Canon 7D, 400 f/5.6, f/5.6, 1/640, ISO 800, manual exposurehandheld, I would post a smaller image, but just wanted to see if I can post a large version like the one I have on my photo.net account.
Thanks for viewing and commenting
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_uxe7FqpWNN4/TM...M/IMG_5931.JPGAfrican Young male Lion at The San Diego Zoo Safari Park (was Wild Animal Park)
Canon 40D, 70-200 f/2.8L IS, f/4, 1/125, ISO 400 @ 200mm, manual exposure handheld
Thanks Jan for showing me how to edit my post
Thanks for viewing and commenting.
Nate,
You can, on the left side, right underneath your post is a button for it.
By the way that Lion looks awesome!
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Originally Posted by Sinh Nhut Nguyen
When did they change the name? I lived in Escondido several years ago. I'm even old enough to remember Lion Country Safari up near Irvine...
They changed it in June, I found out yesterday after I had read the Zoo November Magazine
Nate, Wow, Great shots. But I do have a couple of questions, On thier web page, Safari Park mentions viewing the lions through glass; so did you take these shots through glass? or are there other obstructed areas you can view the lions from? If you did take these through glass, Double wow.
Great work as usual,
Bob
Great shots everyone! I think I
Hi guys, thanks for the nice comment
Bob, these weren't shot through glass, the lion exhibit at SD Zoo Safari Park has a few viewing areas.
Rich, being a member of the San Diego Zoo, I get unlimited access to the zoo and the park, the first few times I was there I did what most people would do, which was going to every exhibit and trying to take as many photos as I could. I ended up with lots of images with busy background, bad head angle, no eye contact, people head in the way, ect, you get the idea. After that I decided to pick one exhibit and spent as much time as I could there (The Lion Camp Exhibit for this year). The longer you spend at an exhibit the more you know about the behavior of the animals, the lighting direction and condition, where to shoot without busy background and what type of equipment you need to get the image.
Thanks Nate, I'll keep that in mind!
What type of "post processing" do you do, because all of your photos seem to have a wonderful, dreamy look to them?
Did you use a Circ. Pol filter?
Rich
Probably had my last round at the zoo a couple days back. Getting mighty chilly for the kids to hang out at the zoo.
This guy was finally awake for a couple minutes.
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My day at the Franklin Park Zoo, Dorchester, Ma.,11-12-10. I went specifically for the new born gorilla and came away some other species as well.
Kiki and her 9 day old infant
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Kiki was a little disgruntled here because there was one person taking a lot of shots w/a flash.
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All photos taken w/7D, 70-200 2.8 IS (rented, not specifically for this photo op), f2.8 to 3.2, ISO either 500 or 800, shutter 1/40 to 1/125. The gorillas' pix were taken thru 5/8th plate glass.
Thanks for looking
Bill
The beluga looks almost thoughtful....love it!
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A lion, from Suffolk Wildlife Park. Canon 300d 75-300mm @ 300mm, ISO 100, f/7.1 &1/400.
How's this for pulling a thread out of the archives!
Actually, I even took these photos last year but I've been spending an awful lot of time going through old photos. Now that I have learned a tad more about post-processing, I was able to pull the first shot out of the deep dark shadows and the second shot out of the over-exposed sunshine. At least it looks better than I could have done last year!
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Slow day for me, chained to a computer... I'm not sure if it's my best or favorite, but they're the most recent. Taken while attending a birthday party at the National Zoo. All are through glass.
50D 17-55 f2.8 IS @ 55mm 1/40" F2.8 ISO400
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2 year old "baby" gorilla. 50D 70-200 f2.8 IS II @ 100mm 1/125" f2.8 ISO2000
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2 year old "baby" gorilla. 50D 70-200 f2.8 IS II @ 102mm 1/125" f2.8 ISO2000
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"Baby" gorilla's mom. 50D 70-200 f2.8 IS II @ 123mm 1/100" f2.8 ISO2000
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Took the kids to the Zoo Howl at theFranklin Park Zoo in Boston this past weekend (thanks for the suggestion, Bill!).
"Wattled Crane"
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Beautiful shot
Wally
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Just trying to learn how to post pictures!
Thanks.
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OKC Zoo
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Here's a little something for this thread..
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Liger Cub - (cross of a male Lion and a female Tiger)
XS + 85mm, f/4.0, 1/640sec, ISO 400
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Papa Tiger -- very grouchy..
XS + 85mm, f/4.0, 1/160sec, ISO 200
Since I still had a rented lens for the afternoon, thought I'd see what else I could shoot. This thread caught my eye, so a trip to the Zoo seemed in order. Hadn't been to this zoo since .. about 1978. Found out that most of it is closed in winter. But still had fun in my compressed 2hr zoo trip (late night slept in, forgot to charged battery)
I was plagued by double chain link and finger printed glass . I'd love to know tips on shooting around through those obstacles.
Anyway here's a couple that I liked from Day two of testing Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM
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Snowshoe hare, this guy was actually wild, he snuck into the zoo and was just outside the summer coops for the birds of prey.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, ISO 400, Exposure 1/800 sec, Aperture 10.0, Focal Length 360mm, Lens 100-400mm f/5.7-40
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Snow Leopard
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, ISO 1250, Exposure 1/640 sec, Aperture 9.0, Focal Length 360mm, Lens 100-400mm f/5.7-40
sample of photo wreck by chain link
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@Kombi first, use a smaller f/# to help blur the chain link! Depending on how good you are with PS or other software you can shoot multiple (more than 4) exposures of your target as you drift to the side. If your object is far away and mostly stationary you can use these images to help piece together the subject through the blurred chain. There may be commercial programs that do this straight away. In MATLAB I do something similar called correlating areas of multiple images. Anything that doesn't correlate gets filtered.
Thanks Chad, next time I'll drop it down, and take a few shots till sufficiently blurred. As for post processing, I'm limited to picasa and software that came with my canon for now.Quote:
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Tried out another lens (EF 70-300 f/4-5.6 L IS USM) and another zoo this weekend bit better results with the chain link.
Was able to virtually make the link disappear in next two sample shots
Calgary Zoo, Feb 19th 2012
No I'm not stuffed... and no, open your own wine bottle.
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EOS REBEL T2i, ISO 100, 1/160 sec, Aperture 5.0, Focal Length 108mm
I coined the term cat nap... now leave me be I'll show you how it's done.
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EOS REBEL T2i, ISO 100, 1/30 sec, Aperture 5.6, Focal Length 300mm
and one I just like, no chain link
Peek a boo!
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EOS REBEL T2i, ISO 100, 1/400 sec, Aperture 5.0, Focal Length 104mm
@Kombi Wow, talk about pushing the IS on that lens: 1/30 @300mm on a 1.6 crop sensor. I'm amazed it came out as sharp as it did! There must not have been very much light even though it looks like daytime - nasty overcast? On my T2i I'm hard-pressed to find the noise in my shots at ISO 400 - it's really no worse than 200 imo. But I've got to give it to you, I can see no evidence of the chain links.
Yes sky was very overcast at time of picture (like the sky behind the mountain goat) , the mountain lion was also under a bit of a shelter in the shade I used a bit of 'fill light' in picasa to see the image.Quote:
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for comparison
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-G...8/IMG_3877.JPGISO 100, Exposure 1/30 sec, Aperture 5.6
link to larger images on picasa with full exif
These are actually from a trip I took to San Diego in October. Sadly, because of residency I have just now been able to visit a view of them. The one of the seal was not in the zoo, it is actually a wild seal shot on the beach. Got all up in the sand to get that shot.
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Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 135mm 1/200 f4.0 ISO 800
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Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 200mm 1/1600 f4 ISO 100
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Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 200mm 1/400 f4 ISO 100
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Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 172mm 1/320 f4 ISO 100
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Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 172 1/250 f5.6 ISO 125
Sorry Huge Post. After going over these I realize I should have been shooting the tigers with a much higher shutter speed. I think I just got so excited that they came over to the front since I had been waiting at the fence for 30 minutes, I just lost track of what I was doing. Hence amateur photographer.
Thanks for looking anyway.
Dave.
Caught the peacock showing off his stuff to a female nearby
And the penguin, well the penguin was just being a penguin
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sorry I dont know how to get the images to show up like all you people have them on the forum