That is a nice clean shot. There are some Sumatran tigers at London Zoo which I've tried several times to photograph, but have never had anything as nice as that - always bars and suchlike in the way.
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Erickson > Sent: 18 February 2007 20:53 > To: PDML > Subject: PESO: Sumatran Tiger > > All, > > The family went to the zoo this morning, and I brought my > *ist-Ds and SMC-A > 70-210 F/4 kit with me. I find it really hard to get animal > pics at the zoo > that aren't obviously zoo pictures. With this one, I finally > got lucky and > got a clean shot of one of the Sumatran tigers at the zoo: > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/tiger.jpg > > Photograph notes: Camera at 1/125 and ISO400, lens zoomed > all the out to > 210 and wide open at F/4. > > Getting the focus right with the 70-210 is hard! I had > several others that > were not quite in focus. Fortune smiled on me and the best > composition > ended up as the sharpest. My focus issues were probably a > combination of > the slow shutter sped and genuine focus issues. I probably > should have shot > at ISO800 and 1/250. > > There are only about 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, > and about 300 in > captivity. The pair at the Sacramento zoo just gave birth to > three male > cubs in November. > > --Mark > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
