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BrandonSi
28th of May 2005 (Sat), 16:03
Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, IL
Cannon Digital Rebel - Promaster 70-300mm
All around 1/200 or 1/250 seconds.

Lion

http://www.audielite.com/images/zoo/Lion_1_Framed.jpg
http://www.audielite.com/images/zoo/Lion_2_Framed.jpg
http://www.audielite.com/images/zoo/Lion_3_Framed.jpg
http://www.audielite.com/images/zoo/Lion_4_Framed.jpg

Tiger

http://www.audielite.com/images/zoo/Tiger_1_Framed.jpg
http://www.audielite.com/images/zoo/Tiger_2_Framed.jpg
http://www.audielite.com/images/zoo/Tiger_3_Framed.jpg


opinions, suggestions, etc..
JJD.Photography
28th of May 2005 (Sat), 20:57
I really like the tiger shots. How far were you away from them? What were you using?
Meerkat17
29th of May 2005 (Sun), 00:25
Lion - shot 1
Tiger - shot 2
They all seem to be in soft focus - have you added any sharpening to the images?

Cheers
David
BrandonSi
29th of May 2005 (Sun), 17:03
I really like the tiger shots. How far were you away from them? What were you using?

Not sure exactly, maybe 30-40 feet. The lens was a promaster 75-300, which with the whatever-multiplication-factor-thingy with the 300D gets close to 400mm.
BrandonSi
29th of May 2005 (Sun), 17:03
Lion - shot 1
Tiger - shot 2
They all seem to be in soft focus - have you added any sharpening to the images?

Cheers
David

No sharpening except for what Capture One did automatically.. i'll play around with USM in photoshop, thanks for the tip, I have hard time noticing when focus is slightly off.

UPDATE - Man! You are good! I checked capture one, and it was set to automatically sharpen for "Soft Focus." I changed it back to "Standard Look." Thanks!!
garbidz
31st of May 2005 (Tue), 11:53
Meerkats have good eyesight. I was just about asking the same question. Your cropping and the choice of moment is escellent. The "zap" is missing but if it just a button in a wrong position, no worrries.
Keep going. In the meantime, read "the Life of Pi".
BrandonSi
31st of May 2005 (Tue), 12:06
Thanks! Those are actually framed from the eyepeice, no cropping anywhere so I appreciate the compliment there :) The colors have really "blah-ed" out with conversion to .jpg. The TIFF's colors are much more vibrant and realistic and stand out better. I print from the TIFF so maybe I just need to work on how i'm converting to JPG. Of course it could just be the format, seeing as how the TIFF is 18MB and the jpg's are like 80-100k. :)