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A Trip to the Zoo Anonymous
Zoo photography: Too easy for beginners? Not elite enough for the rest?
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>> Anonymous
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More zoo-smell

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>> Anonymous
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Location: Minnesota Zoo

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>> Anonymous
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This needs a meme.

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>> Anonymous
lern2focus
>> Anonymous
>>121113
More like learn2resize

Also, why does that monkey on the left have GIANT nipples?
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
800 iso? ew

anyway you can great fantastic zoo shots, but only if you have something in the semblance of patience. Pick a few exhibits near each other spend the entire time at those exhibits waiting for a good shot rather than just running up and clicking away.

also use the lowest ISO you can. Lean on stuff if you have to. Even at 200mm you shouldn't have much trouble shooting down at 1/15.
>> Anonymous
ISO 800's fine on a Rebel.

1/15th might be able to be handheld most of the time, but motion blur would become an issue. They're not mounted on a wall.
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
>>121160
learn patience?

sure stuff moves you just have to learn when to hit the shutter. There are little pauses in between movements that you have to shoot for.

800 iso will give you shitty prints and little ability to crop, though sure it's fine for the web.
>> Anonymous
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>>121160

I took most of these shots while learning my wife to photo. ISO800, while too grainy for blowing up photos, can become necessary with some of the crappy lenses (17-55 kit lense). The lemur, and monkey ISO's were due to negligence (the 70-300 IS USM they were shot with could have done the same at ISO200)

>>121126

I disagree, in the amount of time that I would have normally spent at an exhibit I was able to take usually 1 noteworthy photo. Of the 40 or so exhibits at the zoo (15° weather and a cold wife) I came away with 30 "good" shots (150 total).

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