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First C+C - Dublin Zoo

  • 26-02-2009 2:43pm
    #1
    chaotic_vr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭


    First trip to the zoo with my new dSLR. C+C much appreciated.

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Comments

  • #2
    l pearse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭l pearse


    l like the wolf shot, looking directly@ you, The Heron is crystal. what lens are you using? Try cropping the Chimp & give us a look @ his face, they are so interesting....good set chaotic..:)

    Linda


  • #3
    fluffyVW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭fluffyVW


    Such lovely shots!!! Love the wolf shot!!! Looks like he's about to attack!!! Lol!!!

    The Heron is wonderful, great focus and so clear.

    The Robin is my favourite I think!!! You can see the detail on its feathers!!! Its very cute too!!!

    I'm curious too, what lens are you using???

    Great photos overall and I want to see more!!! :D
    Heading to you're pix.ie account now!!! :D


  • #4
    daycent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭daycent


    I like them all. A bit of PP would work wonders :)


  • #5
    Crispin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Crispin


    Love the heron. Great shot

    The wolf's expression is great, a good capture but unfortunately it seems a little out of focus.

    I like the red panda, thats a great capture because anytime I have seen them they have been asleep near the top of a tree! :)

    chimp pic has too much scrubby ground included which takes away from the image for me. Robin has slightly the opposite problem for me cropped slightly too close, the tail feather cut off and same in front of bird.

    Great pics! enjoy the new camera :)


  • #6
    chaotic_vr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭chaotic_vr


    Thanks for the replies. I was using the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6.

    Using picasa atm as funds a little low then I'll be going over them when I can afford Photoshop or something. Also terrible at pp.:o

    Here's the re-cropped Chimp. Not to keen on it, the focus isn't the best.

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  • #7
    AnCatDubh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭AnCatDubh


    While the crop may have lost a bit of definition / focus on the subject - i guess the general principle of the tighter crop is sound particularly where the contextual area surrounding the subject has no discerning feature(s).

    Having said the above - with #2 I think it a little too tight (can't please some people eh? :) ) but its a good shot.

    #3 is great to have caught him/her with that look - again i'd suggest a little too tight on the crop.

    But in #4 you've nicely crop'd past the creature's form outline (and appropriately so). Again a little too tight at the top I'd imagine.

    The last is good but the focus at the eye is a little soft. I see from the exif you were out at 300mm and f5.6 - assuming you were reasonably close, your depth of field would be very narrow which may be why the eye is out of focus.

    Nice shots though - well done.


  • #8
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    I like them. They all seem to be quite well focused for the lense. I do think you could have been a bit more creative with how you've cropped them. All the subjects are very centered in the images. A bit of post processing would do the wolf wonders. It looks a bit underexposed. The monkey shot would be better if you cropped on the left to give more balance to the picture.

    Also you don't seem to have to done much post processing on them. They could all do with a good bit of noise reduction. ISO 800 on the Canon 1000 is not very pretty. I see you've used Picasa from your EXIF info in Pix.ie. If you can afford, it might be worth your while looking at Adobe Lightroom.

    Over all its a nice set. :)

    Dave OS


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