Photo Assignment August '07: Animals

[bostran1]

I went to the Franklin Park Zoo here in Boston for the first time over the weekend (to practice for the Animal Kingdom on Tuesday!). Anway, the goal was to take shots with a borrowed telephoto lens. I got a few good ones. Also, I was working on shooting through a fence and getting the focus and aperture right so the fence is barely noticeable. Unfortunately, I forgot to check my ISO settings (I wish the Rebel XT always showed you this!) so a lot of the shots are at an ISO that I think is too high (800). But what I did learn was that it worked anyway


Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 220 mm
ISO Speed: 800


Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 100


Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 80 mm
ISO Speed: 800


Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 205 mm
ISO Speed: 800

I would love any suggestions or critiques. I leave for the World on Tuesday so this was practice for the Animal Kingdom!

 

[jann1033]

sabrina was disappointed to learn the fedex delivery of "fisheye" had nothing to do with "tuna"..this is the first photo i took with my new fisheye lens,,,,i had to crop my feet out of the photo....oooopppps

# Camera model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
Tokina 10-17mm
# Date/Time: 2007:08:12 04:35:35
Focal length: 10.0mm (35mm equivalent: 19mm)
# Exposure time: 0.100 s (1/10)
# Aperture: f/4.5
# ISO equiv.: 100
# Whitebalance: Manual
# Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)

 

[DVC Jen]

I have been fascinated with the amount of dragonflies hanging around our pool this summer.

I took these last week.

Canon 30D - 70-300mm Quantaray macro lens
White balance - cloudy
ISO - 100
f/4.5 at 1/320

same as above with the exception of the shutter speed it was 1/250

photoshop info - unsharp mask and cropping.

 

[jenseib]

That dragonfly is so awesome. I LOVE it!!

 

[DVC Jen]

That dragonfly is so awesome. I LOVE it!!

thanks

 

[zipuzee]

this is from a few years back -

 

[tropical depression]

a heron at Ft. DeSoto:

 

[Lizziejane]

I have been fascinated with the amount of dragonflies hanging around our pool this summer.

I took these last week.

Canon 30D - 70-300mm Quantaray macro lens
White balance - cloudy
ISO - 100
f/4.5 at 1/320

same as above with the exception of the shutter speed it was 1/250

photoshop info - unsharp mask and cropping.

Great shots Jen! We have tons of dragonflies right now too - I tried to capture them with the kit lens, but wasn't very successful. I think that macro lens is definitely next on my list!

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

 

[emilysmom09]

Twins at the Atlanta Zoo

The baby panda at the Atlanta Zoo

My cat and dog

I know the cat/dog was taken with a FujiS5000. All were taken using auto everything.

 

[jann1033]

jen great dragon fly! i never knew they had hairy chests before.... and they must have never heard of waxing those things move to fast for me to get anything but unintentional motion blur

 

[hjd0411]

Great photos again! I love this one - wonder if they have budgie gymnastics in the olympics?? He looks cute!

Love the heron shot, too. Neat angle.

Thanks for sharing, everyone.

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

Thank you! Our parakeet is a goof! He looks at himself in the mirror like that! When we let him out, he flies right into the bathroom to the mirror. Birds are fun!

Sorry about the dirty mirror, he did that too, I have to clean it everyday.

 

[DVC Jen]

jen great dragon fly! i never knew they had hairy chests before.... and they must have never heard of waxing those things move to fast for me to get anything but unintentional motion blur

I know - and did ya see the legs!


I have been pretty lucky with them - they actually find a limb or flower or something (my hand in the pool over the weekend) and stay there for quite a while. The biggest issue I had was that one was on a branch on our desert willow tree - which is behind the waterfall in a corner by the fence. VERY cramped quarters. No way I could have gotten a tripod in there. So I took about 1 gig worth of shots and ended up with - 22 I think that I was happy enough to process. Those are the best two.

 

[DVC Jen]

Twins at the Atlanta Zoo

This one is precious.

 

[clearskies]

 

[Suburbanmom]

First of all, I love the dragonflies too. Those should be in a science book in the chapter on insects.

Secondly, this is not my dog. My dog (a fearless yet fussy rottweiler) would look at the stick and tell me to get it myself.

I saw this guy last weekend playing fetch in Lake Erie.

 

[We-Luv-Disney]

A few from yesterday...

 

[brack]

JoJo the DISDog on vacation with us in the mountains of NC. He found his spot right away. Right behind is Lake Junaluska.

Camera is a Canon Rebel XTi using built in flash to compensate for bright background.

 

[dburg30]

From Emerald Isle, NC Oct 2005. Digital Rebel 300d, sigma 50-500 (bigma) lens.