Post your favorite (or best) zoo pictures!

[clemmb]

Here are some of mine from my trip last year to Australia. Most were taken in a petting zoo.


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Feed me!


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My wife can put any baby to sleep.


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Oops! this one was in the wild, not in a zoo.





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All shot with 5D, 24-105


Mark

[ddt0725]

Awesome photos, Mark!!

[clemmb]

Awesome photos, Mark!!
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Thanks

[doggiedoc]

Mark, Denise, Bob - those are some awesome shots! Denise, of course petting zoos count!


Here are a few of my best:








Giraffe with Heart shape on Neck by doggiedoc@tcah.com, on Flickr












Greenville, SC Zoo by doggiedoc@tcah.com, on Flickr












Greenville, SC Zoo by doggiedoc@tcah.com, on Flickr












Baby Bob by doggiedoc@tcah.com, on Flickr












Elephants drink like this. by doggiedoc@tcah.com, on Flickr












Motley Crew by doggiedoc@tcah.com, on Flickr



This last one of course may not qualify..... it's 3/4 of my children when we were at the Greenville Zoo in South Carolina.

[Itheone]

Here's a few of my favorites:


1) Canon 40D w/ 100-400L @ 275mm - f/5.6 - 1/13sec - ISO400








2) Canon 40D w/ 100-400L @ 400mm - f/5.6 - 1/500sec - ISO800








3) Canon 40D w/ 24-105L @ 75mm - f/4.5 - 1/6sec - ISO1600








A few from the aquarium, hope you don't mind:





4) Canon 40D w/ Tokina 11-16 @ 12mm - f/2.8 - 1/30sec - ISO1600








5) Canon 40D w/ 50mm f/1.4 @ 50mm - f/3.2 - 1/40sec - ISO800

[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.

[Kombi]

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.

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.

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!

EOS REBEL T2i, ISO 100, 1/400 sec, Aperture 5.0, Focal Length 104mm