Dublin Zoo Presentation

City-Exile

Ok, to follow up on Paul's suggestion, here are 5 images that I'm happy with, from yesterday's visit to Dublin Zoo.











Large jpegs and RAW images also available.

GristlyEnd

I haven't gone through all of mine yet but here are four for now. I'll come back and add another one later.

Edit: Fifth now added

Paulw

I'm starting with the babies. :-)











We really have a brilliant collection of images from everyone yesterday. Many to be jealous of. :eek:

Zillah

Excellent shots guys.

bovril

Not finished everything yet and they were all fairly soft
Here are five anyways

RCNPhotos

Ugh, I'm jealous

magicbastarder

Paulw wrote:

he looks like a junkie.

Ideo

magicbastarder wrote:

he looks like a junkie.

Wha are ya bleeeedin looooking at?

some nice photos there, esp City-Exile's peacock shot

311

magicbastarder wrote:

he looks like a junkie.

He looks like he's saying ,gwan ye wan**er

trilo

Wow. Ye all got some fairly lively and characteristic shots there. Well done.:)

Borderfox

Some great shots. Love the junkie chimp!!

amie.g

Here are my 5 photos!

Borderfox

Great day out at the Zoo, very happy with the shots. The Bigma was behaving itself and caught a nice shot of the Wolf in the grass (Shot a 500mm @1/320th and f7.1) I had about 40 shots I was happy with so heres the best five. All overexposed by one third of a stop brought back to -0.80 in exposure in PS and Guys actions ran on them. I wanted to show the animals without any fences in the background which I could do apart from the Elephants. Nice talking to everybody too.

amie.g

Great shot of the wolf, they were impossible to get.
Some great photos taken.:o

City-Exile

amie.g wrote:

Some great photos taken.:o

Including your own.
As I said elsewhere, it's great to see how people saw the same thing so differently.
The value of these meet-ups is very apparent, when you see how much we can all learn, from each other.

rymus

Some fantastic shots there. I know it's unavoidable, but it's a damn crying shame about the fences in some of them. You'd think they were taken in rainforest or darkest Africa if it wasn't for them. Great shots folks, well done!

Valentia

Yeah great stuff folks! Darren's elephants for me!

City-Exile

Valentia wrote:

Darren's elephants for me!

Yeah, I agree.
Definitely one of the best.
Did well to hide the fences.

Borderfox

Junkie chimp for me, such a good expression.

City-Exile

Borderfox wrote:

Junkie chimp for me, such a good expression.

I understood Valentia's comment to mean, of the elephant shots, Darren's were the best.

I am of the same opinion.

Did anyone get nice shots of the otters?

elven

Paul's third shot, of the gorilla, I think is fantastic. Looks like a grumpy old man! It'd be lovely to get a bit more detail in his face - although it could be my crappy laptop screen that's stopping me seeing it as it should be.

Excellent, excellent stuff, from everyone. Need to head up there at some point to see the ickle baby elephant

Was it a case of 'he with the longest lens wins'...?

And I mean that in a non innuendous way, of course...

bovril

have to say I was pretty intimadated with the lenses on show alright.. talk about the peacock showing off..

The quality of the shots from the big lenses in my opinion is a lot better than anything i took with the tamron. They've impressed me so much I think I might become a member of the L club sooner rather than later.

City-Exile

elven wrote:

Was it a case of 'he with the longest lens wins'...?

No, there were plenty opportunities to get great shots, with shorter lenses.
My 300mm f/2.8 was too long for the elephant enclosure.
Had to change to a 75-300mm

rymus

bovril wrote:

I think I might become a member of the L club sooner rather than later.

Don't let your bank manager hear that!

City-Exile

bovril wrote:

have to say I was pretty intimadated with the lenses on show alright.. talk about the peacock showing off..

The football field is the only place that I'm comfortable whipping out a big lens, but I'm glad I overcame my shyness yesterday, because I learned so much about the lens and I'm fairly happy with what I got.

bovril

rymus wrote:

Don't let your bank manager hear that!

I'll tell him how good an investment they are and then hit him over the head with something and run off laughing..

Paulw

elven wrote:

Excellent, excellent stuff, from everyone. Need to head up there at some point to see the ickle baby elephant

Was it a case of 'he with the longest lens wins'...?

With some animals it was hard to get a good photo, due to the thick glass. But, we did our best.

As for longest lens, I think Darren had the largest lens, but I think I used the longest shot for the baby giraffe - 100-400mm with 2X extender. So, the image was taken at 800mm. Then add the 1.6 crop factor ... err 1280mm ??

It was a brilliant day out, with so many great photos.

Oh, I sent an email to Dublin Zoo, and told them to check out this thread, to have a look at some of the photos taken, and if they'd like to use any images I would put them in contact with the relevant person. Who knows.

Valentia

City-Exile wrote:

The football field is the only place that I'm comfortable whipping out a big lens, but I'm glad I overcame my shyness yesterday, because I learned so much about the lens and I'm fairly happy with what I got.

Don't be afraid to whip it out more often! The quality is amazing, not all down to the lens of course

HighWire

Paulw wrote:

Oh, I sent an email to Dublin Zoo, and told them to check out this thread, to have a look at some of the photos taken, and if they'd like to use any images I would put them in contact with the relevant person. Who knows.

They might get back, I mailed them ages ago and got a reply, but they havent updated the web site in ages. Last news was 30/01/2006.

positron

Oh dear, you are all going to hate me now - slightly long lens here 400/5.6 - borrowed one though. The oryx and giraffe shots are in fact with a 400 + 1.4 tc - which is what 560mm? On a 1.6 crop sensor, thats err... 896mm? :eek: :eek:

I love Darren's first three shots (elephants, and the chimps), Paul's junkie chimp, borderfox's chimp, amie's tight rhino shot, city-exile's orangutans kissing. Top shots!

Paulw's and bovril's baby elephant shots - wow - they are the shots I wanted to take - I am really jealous! :mad:

City-exile, I did get a few shots of the otters, but none worth posting here tbh. I will upload one to flickr later and link it here.

Here are my final picks.

The Jaguar


Prince Kong / Citizen Kong (can't decide on the title)


Ronnie, the orangutan girl.


The Thirsty Tiger


I can't decide on the last one, so I will leave it at four! Apologies!

Thanks again, that was such fun and productive day!

City-Exile

Lovely shots there, Positron, but the Thirsty Tiger really stands out. It's full of wonderful colour, with fantastic detail! Could have been taken in Siberia!

bovril

positron I'd take any of your shots over mine.. the baby orangutan and the tiger shot are amazing.

soccerc

FAO City_exile

I suspect this resident of Dublin 8 is a St Pats supporter!

City-Exile

thimblefull wrote:

FAO City_exile

I suspect this resident of Dublin 8 is a St Pats supporter!

Might be D8, but he's still a Northsider.
Has to be a Bohs fan, with a disgruntled head like that!

You missed a good day, on Saturday.
Hope the surgery went ok.

Morlar

Some great shots there - I left mine at home this morning so will put a few up tomorrow. Really need to get a proper zoom at some point - some of the ones on display saturday were stunning.

Fionn

doing me nut that i didn't get to go to this

so what about Fota island???

GristlyEnd

I'm going to Fota on the 14th July with some friends. If anyone wants to meet up on the day let me know.

Biker.ie

Happened to be there later that day, weather wasn't great for fast shutter speeds (at least handheld at longer focal lengths), but this is Ireland..







.. and a monkey B.Job ;

some more here

City-Exile

Biker.ie wrote:

.. and a monkey B.Job ;

I had some orangutan porn, but this takes the biscuit!

positron

I was very pleased with my thirsty tiger until biker.ie came along and posted his version - wow - fantastic images! Respecttt!

PS: thanks paul (on flickr), city-exile and bovril for nice comments, kind people!

Borderfox

Class shots Biker.ie. Lots of great shots from everbody. I could sit at the Tiger enclosure all day to get a good shot, beautiful looking creatures.

The Tiger must have the same route around the enclosure as when I seen it last. Sigma 70-200 f2.8 with a 1.4x tc

Morlar

I wasted half today trying to upload them on imageshack so I setup a flickr account instead - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerardkenny/ -

Here are a few from the day :







My flickr page has about 0 views (1,2,3 aww) so feel free to check it out.

positron

Morlar - WOW to the first shot - that is as good as a lion profile shot can get, IMHO! Third one is a very interesting take on that peacock! I like it!

Borderfox

Great shots of the lions, the peacock is a real headturner. I will head over to flickr.

Fajitas!

About ruddy time Ger!

Morlar

Fajitas! wrote:

About ruddy time Ger!

Cheers. imageshack is cack !

GristlyEnd

Love that second lion shot. Will have a look through your flickr now.

Seán_B

Like Gerald, I've also buckled under the weight of peer pressure and set up a flickr!!

So, here we go, Dublin Zoo Top 5 (in no particular order)

City-Exile

Give us your flickr link, Seán.
We'll all be your friend.

Seán_B

City-Exile wrote:

Give us your flickr link, Seán.
We'll all be your friend.

It's a bit sparce, it only has the 5 photos in this thread in it!!!!!! Hopefully i'll add so more photos this weekend!!:)

But, its http://www.flickr.com/photos/sean_b/

The pics from the 300 f2.8 you were using are fantastic, if i had the finances, I'd be giving UrGalaxy a bell.

City-Exile

Se&#225 wrote: »

The pics from the 300 f2.8 you were using are fantastic, if i had the finances, I'd be giving UrGalaxy a bell.

Pray for another SSIA scheme.