Zoo

speedracer04

i went to the zoo over the weekend, i am not much of an animal person i find zoo's sort of sad. but anyway some photos let me know what you think.
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all with d80 70-200 2.8VR. and yes i like grain:)

ShepsMom

Nice set, i'm partial to big cats of course Love the monky faces, their expressions are priceless.

speedracer04

ShepsMom wrote:

Nice set, i'm partial to big cats of course Love the monky faces, their expressions are priceless.

thanks, the monky's were funning to watch. we were watching them and they keeped looking in the little window, then it opened for food. we came back like 30min later and they were all laying on each other trying to block the sun. it reminded me of after thanksgiving

speedracer04

one more cat photo

Skippy

speedracer04 wrote:

i went to the zoo over the weekend, i am not much of an animal person i find zoo's sort of sad. but anyway some photos let me know what you think.
all with d80 70-200 2.8VR. and yes i like grain:)

Love your Tiger stretching shot
I think it would look great as the only thing in colour in that shot too,
done as selective colouring .... Skippy
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Harryb

Love the first, 4th and 5th shots.

Rhuarc

Wow, love that shot of the tiger stretching!! It has the same look and expression on it's face as when my cat stretches, only x1000!!

What lens did you shoot these with? I'm hoping that my new 70-300 will come tomorrow so that Saturday I can take it on a test run to the zoo here in Seattle.

THanks for the great shots!!

Maestro

Harryb wrote:

Love the first, 4th and 5th shots.

speedracer04

Rhuarc wrote:

Wow, love that shot of the tiger stretching!! It has the same look and expression on it's face as when my cat stretches, only x1000!!

What lens did you shoot these with? I'm hoping that my new 70-300 will come tomorrow so that Saturday I can take it on a test run to the zoo here in Seattle.

THanks for the great shots!!

thanks for the feed-back people:)

- this weekend i will go back and try some selective colouring
- i took all of the photos with a nikon d80 and the nikon 70-200 2.8VR. most is not all were taken at 2.8 because it helped to get rid of the cages

Kory Lidstrom

Streching tiger is definitely my fave. Whenever you catch an animal doing something expressive, it always makes the shot more interesting.