Ken Waller wrote:
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[email protected]>
Subject: Peso - another zoo shot
this from today...
it was beautiful out here, and I finally felt limber enough to carry
the camera... no tripod tho...
hoping still to get a beastie calendar ready over the next week or
so... I headed to a little zoo in Brooklyn
I'd never been to before...
Mostly, I struck out.. needed that tripod or higher ISO . missed
totally on red panda shots because of auto focus that I trusted and
shouldnt ahve.
but I kinda like this one:
http://annsan.smugmug.com/Works-in-Print/Works-In-Progress/Critters/14740904_qL7Eb/1/1101312771_kjEuR/Large
ann
Very nice shot Ann. Its obvious you tool some time with this.
I like the subject, pose, light & the exposure you chose.
Thanks, Ken.. see my disertation on it, below ... ;-)
Thanks to _all_ of you for commenting - so glad you guys all like the
shot...
I'm answering this to address Ken's comments specifically - and
hopefullly it will be of some interest to y'all
The Baboons were behind glass in a fairly large enclosure with light
streaming in from outside, above ... This guy was the 10 year old male
who shared this space with 2 fairly young wives who each had a kid in
tow, and two older females, one of who was crippled with arthritis
and it was heartbreaking to see her... she was so sad.
I shot 14 frames in total - most of them of this male because the light
was hitting him so nicely - looked at the times on my camera and I was
there for a total of 15 minutes from first frame to last... this one
was 6 of 8 I took of him sitting where he was in the one you saw.
In photoshop I lightened the shadows his eyes were in and cropped a
bit...more from the right side than the left. I was shit lucky the
glass was clean where he was and the angle was right not to get
reflection - and to have enough light to shoot at ISO400. I didn't
really know this was going to be the one that I liked best until I got
home... I had another shot I thought was the one... (the last of the
set, of course )
when I was still there... aside from noticing that something is
completely off , chimping does me little good.. when I got home there
were things out of focus that I couldnt see on the camera.
anyway, everyone... thanks for the support... if the weather isn't too
awful tomorrow I think I'll head to the Bronx Zoo... it is "pay what you
will" i.e., _suggested_ donation day which means I can get in for 25
cents. Pretty soon I'll get myself a senior yearly membership for
all the zoos that is pretty damn cheap so I can do more zoo shooting.
NOt sure why I'm into right now except I wanted to get a calendar done
for this year.
ann
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