Post your favorite (or best) zoo pictures!

[ChadS]

@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.

[Kombi]

@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.
for comparison
ISO 100, Exposure 1/250 sec, Aperture 5.6
ISO 3200, Exposure 1/400 sec, Aperture 7.1
ISO 100, Exposure 1/60 sec, Aperture 5.6
ISO 100, Exposure 1/30 sec, Aperture 5.6
link to larger images on picasa with full exif

[Dave Johnston]

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.


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr

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


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr

Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 200mm 1/400 f4 ISO 100


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr

Canon 50D + 70-200 f4L @ 172mm 1/320 f4 ISO 100


Untitled by johnstondox, on Flickr

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.

[wilding81]

Caught the peacock showing off his stuff to a female nearby

And the penguin, well the penguin was just being a penguin

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/67730394/IMG_0777.JPG


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/67730394/IMG_0762.JPG


sorry I dont know how to get the images to show up like all you people have them on the forum