Fancy A Day At The Zoo!

Diminuendo

Diminuendo

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Well I did. Paignton Zoo. Had a great time and visited some relatives too! :lol:

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This baby giraffe was born just a few days ago.
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One for Uncle Goober, who I think likes Lions?
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This is a proper ' snap'.!
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Think your pictures are great but notice that a few of them could do with touching up (ie Photoshop alter brightness, tones etc).

Have you ever tried it?
 
Thanks Craig, lets see some of your touched up pics then :lol:
I have the latest Photoshop, but I don't use it very often to ' touch up' photos. I prefer to show what i can do with a camera, when weather conditions are bad etc, and today a lot of the pics are took are from behind a cage or glass. In fact, the giraffes are behind glass, the tiger and lion too , as well as the croc. Those pics are not as good as the others. The better pics were not hindered by artificial lights and conditions.
 
Dear old Paignton Zoo - I visited it in, I think, the summer of 1974! It was nice, though, with good-size enclosures for the big cats, and beautiful pools for the water birds. I love the two little chaps who are cadging a lift in the last two photos!
 
Great pictures again! I watched something a while ago about a pregnant giraffe and what I didn't know was that they don't lie down to give birth, instead they give birth standing up so the baby has a long way to fall to the ground. :confused:
 
That was interesting! It's given the same result that the cameras do on ATR - we've been into near-Stygian gloom at Lingfield, with people fussing about whether it's too dark to race - you get home, watch the replay, and it looks like a lovely sunny evening! It hasn't actually changed the tiger's colours, has it, it's just brightened up the whole pic.
 
Craig, I'll remember that in future. To be honest the one thing that helps when the light is bad or there is a screen between you and the animal is of course flash photography, but I can't use that on animals.
I took zillions of pics yesterday and I do have a lot more of the tiger etc with more colour or light. Maybe I just rushed it a put some poor ones up.
 
It's a wild turkey from somewhere... Dims, you see - doesn't it make all the difference that you've caught him with his head to the side, looking inquiringly at you? "Is that a Konika Max 5 with triple-flash overdrive?" is what he's thinking, and it shows. If you'd taken him just straight on, it'd be a much less interesting, and delightful, piccy. That's one of the features setting you apart from the ordinary snapper - as I said before, you are getting real pictures, not just photos.
 
I only like looking at the Meerkats when I go to the zoo. I could watch them for, well, minutes at a time. Big cat cubs can be ok as well. But mostly meerkats.
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Originally posted by Diminuendo@Feb 10 2006, 09:52 AM
Craig, I'll remember that in future. To be honest the one thing that helps when the light is bad or there is a screen between you and the animal is of course flash photography, but I can't use that on animals.
I took zillions of pics yesterday and I do have a lot more of the tiger etc with more colour or light. Maybe I just rushed it a put some poor ones up.
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Your pics are great and i'm sure you know sh#t loads about photography, it's just a shame when some of the good pics are a little dark, photoshop helps to bring them to life.

You don't have to be a computer wiz either.
 
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