Another good shot. You are doing extremely well at making zoo shots look interesting. I remember shooting at the Bronx Zoo while in NYC and it wasn't easy to get interesting shots.
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Cool shots. I hate zoos! But Harry is right, you and some others are proving that zoos may have improved. I did go to a good zoo about 5 yrs ago in Milwaukee with my daughter and granddaughter. Only took photos of the granddaughter. I did not have the equipment I have now.
They are moving once again, next June, to Columbia, SC, and I have told them I am looking forward to the wonderful zoo that is said to be there.
I will be watching your stuff...........to see what I should do. It is in the mid nineties here right now......and Columbia is notoriously hot. Don't know what the animals do then.
Another good shot. You are doing extremely well at making zoo shots look interesting. I remember shooting at the Bronx Zoo while in NYC and it wasn't easy to get interesting shots.
Thanks Harry.
Troy (Windoze) said it best in a tutorial he wrote on zoo shooting. Patience. You have to wait, and you have to keep going back. For this shot I was lucky in that he was in the shade not too far away. He could of easily been out on the open in harsh sun and I would of gotten a boring, brightly lit, rhino pic. At the Cleveland zoo, I can't get anything decent for rhinos, ever. It's because of the way the area is designed, standard pen, no scenery, bright sun all the time.
The tiger in another thread I didn't think I'd get at all. At first he was in the back pacing along a fence. No good pic there. I was lucky that the next time I went by, at closing, he was in the water.
I delete a ton of shots afterwards, and you can hear me muttering to myself, eh, booooorrrrring.:D
Cool shots. I hate zoos! But Harry is right, you and some others are proving that zoos may have improved. I did go to a good zoo about 5 yrs ago in Milwaukee with my daughter and granddaughter. Only took photos of the granddaughter. I did not have the equipment I have now.
They are moving once again, next June, to Columbia, SC, and I have told them I am looking forward to the wonderful zoo that is said to be there.
I will be watching your stuff...........to see what I should do. It is in the mid nineties here right now......and Columbia is notoriously hot. Don't know what the animals do then.
ginger
Thanks Ginger. It was in the mid 90s the day I took these. It was one of the reasons the rhino was giving itself a nice mud bath.:D
Certain zoos are set up nice for pictures, others aren't. While I like the Cleveland Zoo, it's one that has it very hard to get a pic that doesn't say ZOO all over it. This where I generally do very close protrait shots of animals. The Akron Zoo, while small, allows you to be closer to the animals and does a little more to give a better natural habitat feel. The Pittsburgh Zoo offers better shooting opps for it's elephants.
I hope to hit Toledo, Erie, and Buffalo zoos before summers over.
disclaimer - anything written or said by me must be taken with a grain of salt or a bottle of wine ( your choice ) . Sometimes our mind plays tricks on us, well mine never stopped !
Btw, Khaos - your zoo shots are vastly improving!! I recently purchased another subscription to the zoo wher ei live but its been so hot i havent been able to get there, now after seeing your post im thinking i need / want to go !
Troy (Windoze) said it best in a tutorial he wrote on zoo shooting. Patience. You have to wait, and you have to keep going back. For this shot I was lucky in that he was in the shade not too far away. He could of easily been out on the open in harsh sun and I would of gotten a boring, brightly lit, rhino pic. At the Cleveland zoo, I can't get anything decent for rhinos, ever. It's because of the way the area is designed, standard pen, no scenery, bright sun all the time.
The tiger in another thread I didn't think I'd get at all. At first he was in the back pacing along a fence. No good pic there. I was lucky that the next time I went by, at closing, he was in the water.
I delete a ton of shots afterwards, and you can hear me muttering to myself, eh, booooorrrrring.:D
Cool shots. I hate zoos! But Harry is right, you and some others are proving that zoos may have improved. I did go to a good zoo about 5 yrs ago in Milwaukee with my daughter and granddaughter. Only took photos of the granddaughter. I did not have the equipment I have now.
They are moving once again, next June, to Columbia, SC, and I have told them I am looking forward to the wonderful zoo that is said to be there.
I will be watching your stuff...........to see what I should do. It is in the mid nineties here right now......and Columbia is notoriously hot. Don't know what the animals do then.
ginger
Ginger I'm glad you said that, I often feel a bit gut-sick to be honest when I see some zoo shots. Many zoos are excellent I know, our ones here in Melbourne are making a fantastic attempt to be conservation-smart and have great environments to breed endangered species. Some of the zoo shots come out in such un-natural colours though, birds and some primates especially, if they are in cages rather than free range. The fantastic wild bird shots d-grin is full of don't have that artificial light or flash look. Which is again a different issue to the fact that they are obviously caged, concrete floors and fences etc. spoil the shot totally. Yet the animals themselves are fantastic and worth photographing. So it's like a crisis of conscience or something - I love the work the good zoos do, but hate the misery you can see in some of the animals, the total total boredom. I am going to try to keep an open mind, and will go to the open range zoo and try to balance my attitude.
Khaos your rhino is truly beatiful, and if my shots are that good I'll think I have it made. Just need to get through the gates first, (still working on my attitude and anti-zoo photography prejudice).
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Cool shots. I hate zoos! But Harry is right, you and some others are proving that zoos may have improved. I did go to a good zoo about 5 yrs ago in Milwaukee with my daughter and granddaughter. Only took photos of the granddaughter. I did not have the equipment I have now.
They are moving once again, next June, to Columbia, SC, and I have told them I am looking forward to the wonderful zoo that is said to be there.
I will be watching your stuff...........to see what I should do. It is in the mid nineties here right now......and Columbia is notoriously hot. Don't know what the animals do then.
ginger
Troy (Windoze) said it best in a tutorial he wrote on zoo shooting. Patience. You have to wait, and you have to keep going back. For this shot I was lucky in that he was in the shade not too far away. He could of easily been out on the open in harsh sun and I would of gotten a boring, brightly lit, rhino pic. At the Cleveland zoo, I can't get anything decent for rhinos, ever. It's because of the way the area is designed, standard pen, no scenery, bright sun all the time.
The tiger in another thread I didn't think I'd get at all. At first he was in the back pacing along a fence. No good pic there. I was lucky that the next time I went by, at closing, he was in the water.
I delete a ton of shots afterwards, and you can hear me muttering to myself, eh, booooorrrrring.:D
Certain zoos are set up nice for pictures, others aren't. While I like the Cleveland Zoo, it's one that has it very hard to get a pic that doesn't say ZOO all over it. This where I generally do very close protrait shots of animals. The Akron Zoo, while small, allows you to be closer to the animals and does a little more to give a better natural habitat feel. The Pittsburgh Zoo offers better shooting opps for it's elephants.
I hope to hit Toledo, Erie, and Buffalo zoos before summers over.
Btw, Khaos - your zoo shots are vastly improving!! I recently purchased another subscription to the zoo wher ei live but its been so hot i havent been able to get there, now after seeing your post im thinking i need / want to go !
troy
Ginger I'm glad you said that, I often feel a bit gut-sick to be honest when I see some zoo shots. Many zoos are excellent I know, our ones here in Melbourne are making a fantastic attempt to be conservation-smart and have great environments to breed endangered species. Some of the zoo shots come out in such un-natural colours though, birds and some primates especially, if they are in cages rather than free range. The fantastic wild bird shots d-grin is full of don't have that artificial light or flash look. Which is again a different issue to the fact that they are obviously caged, concrete floors and fences etc. spoil the shot totally. Yet the animals themselves are fantastic and worth photographing. So it's like a crisis of conscience or something - I love the work the good zoos do, but hate the misery you can see in some of the animals, the total total boredom. I am going to try to keep an open mind, and will go to the open range zoo and try to balance my attitude.
Khaos your rhino is truly beatiful, and if my shots are that good I'll think I have it made. Just need to get through the gates first, (still working on my attitude and anti-zoo photography prejudice).
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