Post your favorite (or best) zoo pictures!

[ddt0725]

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!

[cowmao]

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





2 year old "baby" gorilla. 50D 70-200 f2.8 IS II @ 100mm 1/125" f2.8 ISO2000





2 year old "baby" gorilla. 50D 70-200 f2.8 IS II @ 102mm 1/125" f2.8 ISO2000





"Baby" gorilla's mom. 50D 70-200 f2.8 IS II @ 123mm 1/100" f2.8 ISO2000

[neuroanatomist]

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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EOS 5D Mark II, EF 70-200mm f/2.8<span style="color: #ff0000;"]L II IS USM + EF 2x II Extender @ 260mm, 1/250 s, f/5.6, ISO 400

[bouwy]

Beautiful shot


Wally

[canonclix]

Just trying to learn how to post pictures!
Thanks.

60D - 70-200mm 2.8L II

[HDNitehawk]

OKC Zoo


Loving Mom by hdnitehawk01, on Flickr

[MrGreenBug]

Here's a little something for this thread..



Liger Cub - (cross of a male Lion and a female Tiger)
XS + 85mm, f/4.0, 1/640sec, ISO 400



Papa Tiger -- very grouchy..
XS + 85mm, f/4.0, 1/160sec, ISO 200

[Kombi]

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


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

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

[ChadS]

@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.

[Kombi]

@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.