A few from the Zoo

Scottland · 24 Sep 2009 at 16:31

Went on a trip to Chester Zoo yesterday, thought I'd share a few pics.
I've not had much experience with my A200, so feel free to add your critiqué.

Ciphon · 24 Sep 2009 at 16:37

All nice pictures!

I think maybe you could have done with getting in a little tighter on the animals.

Scottland · 24 Sep 2009 at 16:42

Yeah I agree, unfortunatly I was at the limit of my lens (55-200).

ScarySquirrel · 24 Sep 2009 at 17:25

Some really good shots. However I think most of them could do with some cropping.

Try some tighter crops and see how they come out.

For example:

Pickett · 25 Sep 2009 at 16:00

Nice pics! The meerkat is my favourite, and agree with the new crop above.

Only thing is, the last photo of the lion doesn't seem too sharp, maybe apply a little USM in PS, or did the camera just misfocus slightly?

Mark A · 25 Sep 2009 at 22:14

I recognise that lion

. How did you manage to get a shot without the fence visible? Best i could get:

Nice shots. most of mine came out rubbish as there was thousands of people there as we went on mothers day. Couldn't get anywhere near the chimps or the Jaguar

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Scottland · 26 Sep 2009 at 09:48

ScarySquirrel said:
Some really good shots. However I think most of them could do with some cropping.

Try some tighter crops and see how they come out.

For example:

[]http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4036/meerkatk.jpg[/]

Yeah I think I'll try some crops and see how they look.

Pickett said:
Nice pics! The meerkat is my favourite, and agree with the new crop above.

Only thing is, the last photo of the lion doesn't seem too sharp, maybe apply a little USM in PS, or did the camera just misfocus slightly?

Yeah on second glance the log next to the lion seems in focus more. Must have been me/the camera

Mark A said:
I recognise that lion . How did you manage to get a shot without the fence visible? Best i could get:

[]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c267/ashworth614/DSC_0200resize.jpg[/]

I was surprised the fence got missed out tbh, you can just about see some hazyness from the fence in some of them but I was quite pleased overall.

We went mid week during term time and it was dead

Here's the full set if anyone wants a look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottlanda/sets/72157622320466451/

ukgazman · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:17

some of my better ones from zoo's...

https://flic.kr/p/6DPYbq

https://flic.kr/p/6DPXkK

https://flic.kr/p/6DQ9Ye

https://flic.kr/p/6DUYgC

I agree with the tighter crop on the animals, although it's not always possible when taking them. Personally I don't like cropping in post processing, weird I know

Mark A · 27 Sep 2009 at 03:24

Some nice pics there. When we went there were hardly any animals about, they were well out of the way and the ones that were closer where swarmed with mothers and their kids.

The elephants were awesome. Massive enclosure, which made it much easier to take pics.

PR. · 27 Sep 2009 at 13:08

Not sure if this is the place for zoo photography or not...

Went to Whipsnade Zoo on Friday, not many people around so was no problem there, was going to link them here but they are 1024 and seem to be too big!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7583754@N05/sets/72157622459645036/