Weekend zoo walk

robbins.photo · Mar 25, 2014

Still quite a few more I need to get processed, gave the memory card a real workout this weekend - lol. But a few that I rather liked from this weekend that I've gotten a chance to go through so far:

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astroNikon · Mar 25, 2014

I really like the duck one
if you could have gotten him to pose to get the water more frothy that would have been awesome ... lol

baturn · Mar 25, 2014

1st and 3rd for me. I like the lion staring off into space as much as the eye contact with the tiger. Very nice! more. more!

BillM · Mar 25, 2014

Great pose on the Lion, kind of makes you want to scratch his nose lol

Rick58 · Mar 25, 2014

That first cat is great. With all these zoo shots, I am starting to wonder about your avatar. Selfie?

robbins.photo · Mar 25, 2014

astroNikon said:
I really like the duck one
if you could have gotten him to pose to get the water more frothy that would have been awesome ... lol

Ok... so jotting that down in my notebook. More froth. got it. Lol

baturn said:
1st and 3rd for me. I like the lion staring off into space as much as the eye contact with the tiger. Very nice! more. more!

Lol.. still have a ton to go through from the weekend. I'll get them up and going as soon as I can, really need to get the stuff I shot for that high school kid done first.

BillM said:
Great pose on the Lion, kind of makes you want to scratch his nose lol

My friend lefty tried it once. Just once. lol

Rick58 said:
That first cat is great. With all these zoo shots, I am starting to wonder about your avatar. Selfie?

Sadly no, not a selfie. That's actually my older brother. Lucky duck got all the looks in the family.. lol.

BillM · Mar 25, 2014

Is "Lefty" chicken or something ? Tell him I double dog dare him to do it again !!!! And i hate to do this but I am prepared to TRIPLE dog dare him if it comes to that :crazy:

robbins.photo · Mar 25, 2014

BillM said:
Is "Lefty" chicken or something ? Tell him I double dog dare him to do it again !!!! And i hate to do this but I am prepared to TRIPLE dog dare him if it comes to that :crazy:

Um.. well I'll ask him about it as soon as he gets out of the hospital. Apparently he was attacked recently by a trio of pit bulls. As tirediron would say, now that's Irony.. rotfl

jamesparker1250 · Mar 25, 2014

Really like the 3 and 4 one love you pictures as allways.

alv · Mar 25, 2014

3 great shot

pjaye · Mar 25, 2014

robbins.photo said:
Still quite a few more I need to get processed, gave the memory card a real workout this weekend - lol. But a few that I rather liked from this weekend that I've gotten a chance to go through so far:

20140321 827 by robbins.photo, on Flickr

20140321 1304 by robbins.photo, on Flickr

I am absolutely in love. (with the CAT not you!) Although you do take some really great pictures.

robbins.photo · Mar 25, 2014

symplybarb said:
I am absolutely in love. (with the CAT not you!) Although you do take some really great pictures.

Lol - thanks Barb. Appreciate that. Of everything I shot this weekend I think that one is probably my favorite.

Parker219 · Mar 25, 2014

Nice ones!

Were these all shot with the same lens? What lens? Any sharpening in post?

robbins.photo · Mar 25, 2014

Parker219 said:
Nice ones!

Were these all shot with the same lens? What lens? Any sharpening in post?

These were all shot with the Sigma 70-200 mm f/2.8 OS - all but the last one was shot with a 2x Sigma Teleconverter attached. I did use a single pass of photoshop's "smart sharpen" on all of them.

Parker219 · Mar 25, 2014

It looks like you used smart sharpen on the entire image which created noise in the background.

I know you are not submitting these photos to National Geographic or anything, but I would select just the subject, smart sharpen, then select the inverse of your subject, and do a noise reduction, your subjects will POP even more!