Zoo Pics

[bentcountershaft]

A few from the zoo today that I liked.

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[er111a]

really like 3 and is that blood in the last one O_O

 

[LCARSx32]

I've done it with my daughter when she was a baby. Maybe her daughter blew out her diaper and she didn't bring another outfit to change her in...you just never know.

What the heck are you talking about?!

 

[dak1b]

great capture on #5 :thumbup:

 

[bentcountershaft]

Thanks and yes, that's a bowl of blood.

 

[Bombers]

The pictures are great and I wonder who's blood it is haha!

 

[MohaimenK]

That's an angry looking cat you got there on 3rd shot. Makes me want to hit CTRL + ALT + DEL over and over :lmao:

 

[DerekSalem]

3 is absolutely the best in this set. Fantastic picture! You nailed the focus and composure and the cat was looking dead on! Very impressive!

 

[ImNick]

number 3 FTW

 

[RKW3]

Some C&C.

1. Blurry, needs a faster shutter speed. Dull colors, photo is dim.
2. Needs better composition; too centered on the animal. Slightly underexposed.
3. Brilliant! Love it.
4. Cool shot, maybe slightly more depth of field and exposure.
5. Nice capture.
6. Neat, but a bit too dark.

Hope I helped, it's been a while since I've posted here so excuse me if my critiques aren't up to par with other posters.

 

[Markw]

I absolutely love that margay looking cat. The third photo is great. Has a color cast and is a tad washed out though. I did a quick edit. Levels, midtone contrast, a slight sharpening, removed the color cast, and cropped. I dont really know if I like the crop yet, but the original seemed extremely too centered with too much open space to me. Anywho, here's my two cents:

Mark

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Mark, I think you should have cropped it to the left, to give more space. I see this needing to be centered. My reasoning would be the head and the rump would then fall on the 'thirds' lines.

Nice images BCS.
I really like the darkness of the Bat picture. I think you could do without the bowl though.

 

[BuS_RiDeR]

#3 is my favorite... I love it.

As for a re-crop... How about a 2:1 crop? Kinda like...

 

[bentcountershaft]

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I meant to post on this earlier today but I got sidetracked reading the Ansel Adams train wreck thread. Regarding the darkness off the bat pic, that's all the light I could get. They were in a dark room behind highly reflective glass while I was surrounded by small children screeching madly. 3200 ISO at 1.8 and 1/80 sec. was the limit of my and my equipment's abilities. I just considered it a victory that it looked decent at all. I guess the bowl was there just to emphasis the Vampire part of Vampire bat and to feed my somewhat sick sense of humor. It's not very artistic looking I'll admit.

I dig the 2:1 crop Busrider. I seldom do anything other than 3:2/2:3 anymore with the occasional 1:1. Need to break myself of that.

Anyway, here's some more from the zoo. This was taken immediately following the one I previously posted. I was trying to get a bit of motion blur from his trunk but his head moved too much. This one may do that a little better.

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The rest are monkey/ape pics. I guess I relate to them so I shoot them a lot.

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[Markw]

7.The new elephant is alot better IMO. Nice job.
8. I think it could use a tad bit tighter crop and some dodging on the eyes.
9. I think this is really dark for my taste. Maybe its just me..
10. I really like this one, but, again, its a tad dark for me.

Overall, I really like this set. Successful zoo photos really excite me. Thank you for that. Can I ask what lens/camera combo you were using? EOS T1i, but 85mm 1.8 Im guessing?

Mark