Zoo Pictures

[Melinda]

Hey I went down to the zoo today with my parents and took some pictures. Here are the first few I have edited






These two are my favorite...my mom is responsible for getting the red pandas to look at me and I had to photoshop the bars out of the picture for the tigers...hope you like them!

[JordanLotoski]

those are amazing pictures..how the hell are you all so good at photography..and i suck

[sxtasy]

Yah, those are great pics...dam i wish i had some photography skills

[MenteL]

Hey Melinda,

Send me the original picture of the tigers, I'll get the bar out of there. I noticed you did a good job at it but there is still alot of blur, I can fix that for ya

-Dave

[Ekliptix]

I have got to go there sometime. Nice pictures, I hope you'l lbe putting the rest up either here or on your site.

A have a few questions.
1. Did you find your aperture to be greater then F4 in most of those shots?
2. Did you use a flash with the swan pic? Are you allowed to use flash at the zoo?
3. Did you use that common color select tool with the red pandas for the background? because there's something a little weird about that pic.
4. Why does that owl freak me out so much?


Nice work with the bars, I probably wouldn't have noticed if you didn' tell me.


Ben is heading to the zoo tommorow.

[illeagle]

i think they look awsome.. I'm willing to bet your not using one of them disposable cameras..

[MenteL]

Originally posted by Ekliptix

3. Did you use that common color select tool with the red pandas [/B]

I think she turned the water/background grayscale.

[Ekliptix]

Originally posted by illeagle
i think they look awsome.. I'm willing to bet your not using one of them disposable cameras..

A camera phone with a 8x teleconverter I believe.

[illeagle]

Originally posted by Ekliptix


A camera phone with a 8x teleconverter I believe.

WOW! that's pretty clear for a phone.. The antenna must have been up or The battery's must have been fully charged or somthing...

[Ben]

Originally posted by Ekliptix


A camera phone with a 8x teleconverter I believe.

Yeah, its new in Canons L Series, works pretty good.

great pics Mel!

[Melinda]

Thanks everyone! I'll post the rest up as I get more time to edit them!

[girlRACER]

Great pics Melinda The red pandas are so cute.

It is a coincidence! Me and Benny are going to the Zoo tomorrow. I have to observe some primates for my anthropology lab and he is going to take pics.

[Melinda]

Originally posted by Ekliptix
I have got to go there sometime. Nice pictures, I hope you'l lbe putting the rest up either here or on your site.

A have a few questions.
1. Did you find your aperture to be greater then F4 in most of those shots?
2. Did you use a flash with the swan pic? Are you allowed to use flash at the zoo?
3. Did you use that common color select tool with the red pandas for the background? because there's something a little weird about that pic.
4. Why does that owl freak me out so much?


Nice work with the bars, I probably wouldn't have noticed if you didn' tell me.


Ben is heading to the zoo tommorow.

Thanks Graham To answer your questions:

1. Yes, with the gloomy day and the distance I was zooming (especially since it was winter and most of the animals were inside) most of my shots were about 2.8 with a flash.
2. Yes, I used a fill flash with the swan and yes, you can use flash at the zoo, I have never had problems there before and I've been there a few times to do pictures of the animals.
3. No, the panda picture is exactly as it was taken. The only alterations I did on the photos were the bars in the tiger picture and making the owl black and white...other then that it is just levels and minor color corrections in photoshop
4. I dunno but I took that picture just for you lol...I remember you telling me that the yellow in the owl's eyes freak you out so I had dad scare the owl for me so his eyes would open and I photoshoped it so that the yellows were the only thing in color


Thanks for all the other nice comments guys, still working on some of the others! I'll post up some of the ones I took in other trips to the zoo

[Moonracer]

Nice work Mel!

[benyl]

I am in Vancouver tonight and can't FTP due to my VPN, but I have attached some pics that I took at the Sydney Zoo. Awesome pics Mel.

These were taken with my crappy Sony camera.

[benyl]

Monkeys

[benyl]

Koalas in action:

[benyl]

Slick bear

[JAYMEZ]

Hah those are awesome , nice pics!!

[Dave P]

Mel

Awsome pics, and i just checked out your site.


Im sure its safe to say im sure we will all be seeing a lot of your work in the future