Post your favorite (or best) zoo pictures!

[Flaming]

These two were taking at a small zoo in the flatlands of Colombia. Unfortunantly they were taken with my old camera and I did not get them super well setup but they are cool anyway.


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Panasonic DMC-FZ7 36mm (I think that is really 400mm or so) F/3.3 1/25sec ISO-200


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Panasonic DMC-FZ7 14mm (I think that is about 200mm or so) F/3.2 1/60sec ISO-200

[Madison]

That last one is brilliant. Open wiiiiiiide!

[Flaming]

That last one is brilliant. Open wiiiiiiide!

Thanks Madison!


That was one of those pictures where you line up and setup everything for a normal shot and the guy just does something really cool.

[jnort002]

Some more big cat pics. Clouded snow leopard this time[img]/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.30.91/Snow-leopard-1.JPG[/img]


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[piiooo]

Nice portraits. I like watching snow leoparts a lot. In my local zoo there is one that walks around with his tail in his mouth. Toobad they are kept behind a wire mesh, I couldn't grab a good shot.


Is that blur a lens blur or a post processing one?

[kzuk9237]

Looks like this thread is still going....





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This peacock did not trust me. Captured at the Lipetsk Zoo in Russia (he is not use to seeing anything but point and shoot cameras I guess).(Canon 1000d, 28-135mm)





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Again, got this while at the Lipetsk Zoo....the Russian says, "Be careful, this animal is dangerous!" It is the cage for red squirrels


(Canon 1000d, 28-135mm)





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Lipetsk Zoo in Russia.(Canon 1000d, 28-135mm)





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Young girl was enjoying a day at the Lipetsk Zoo, drawing these birds....she never knew I got this shot from behind her.(Canon 1000d, 28-135mm)





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Eyes half closed Syracuse Zoo in upstate NY.(Canon 1000d, 70-200mm F4)





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My favorite shot at the Syracuse Zoo in upstate NY. He was building a home near the elephant display...but since he is not part of the Zoo, he enjoys his freedom to come and go. (Canon 1000d, 70-200mm F4)

[Chris White]

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I got my new 70-200 2.8 IS for my 50D just in time for a family trip to the Buffalo Zoo. I got a lot of great pictures. I chose four for this forum. The ram above is probably my favorite of the day. He currently stares at me from my computer desktop. I love that lens! I would appricate any critique and advise. I am looking to submit some photos for the zoo contest this fall. I just got back into shooting last fall and moved from film to digital. I forgot the rush of getting a great shot!


Thanks.


Chris

[musickna]

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Here's the now sadly deceased 'Hope' having fun with a ball a couple of years ago at the St. Louis Zoo. Handheld 40D with the 100-400 mm L zoom.

[Jordan]

This photo was taken TODAY in fact... doesn't it look like he was sitting and posing just for the photo... like I brought him into my studio... put up a backdrop, told him to pose and how to pose and snapped it? haha!!


This was taken with my Canon 7D and an EF 300mm f/4 L IS I was renting.... NICE lens! Believe it or not, it was shot through fence (well I should HOPE so if you know what I mean!) but because he was so far away the fence completely blurred out.... photo still nice and crisp. Shot in medium-RAW and light edits in Photoshop and Lightroom 2.





- Jordan


www.freshphotohawaii.com

[42Molybdenum]

I see some really brilliant work here. That photo of the lion with the piece of meat thrown at it. Wow.





Here are two of mine, both taken at the museum of natural history in Vienna:


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(50D, EF-70-300, f/5.6, 1/20 s ISO200 @300mm)


And the following one:





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