Toronto Zoo trip

[cc3chan]

This is my first time posting images here.
I went to the Toronto Zoo on Sunday. First time I tried my Sigma 70-200 F2.8 HSM outdoors for a whole day. The weather was really bad. Rained when I got up at 6:30 AM. The sky was overcast for the whole day. Very humid and tempurature in the mid 30 Cs. Thought I was going to be stuck in the indoor exhibits for the whole day, but luckily the rain stopped by 8:30 AM. I was surprised that there was quite alot of people there waiting for the zoo to open at 9:00 AM. The sky really played with the exposure settings.


sumatran-tiger.jpg (http://attachment.php?attachmentid=&stc=1)
I had to shoot through wire fence for this. It later tried to take a bath in a big rubber container, but could never quite kae it in without tipping the whole thing on it's side. I watched it try for about 10 minutes without success and it looked quite funny.

siberian-tiger.jpg (http://attachment.php?attachmentid=&stc=1)
This tiger was really lazy. I first saw it at about 9:15 AM and went back there about 1:00 PM and it was still sleeping. Finally got up and looked at me for a while but never actually getting up. The other Siberian tiger was sleeping on the other side of the hill and it never once got up while I was at the zoo.

[einsteinsauntie]

Lovely clear photos of beautiful animals.

[ghocking]

Lovely shots, Tigers are fantastic animals.

I have a wild animal park just a couple of miles away, and they have both Sumatran and Amur tigers, and they keep them fit by putting their food on top of poles so that they have to climb to get it. The Sumatrans in one jump up and down, the bigger and heavier Amurs a bit slower.

[Michaelmjc]

Great shots, they turned out pretty good for the crappy weather.

[cc3chan]

Thanks for the compliments. I've never really tried nature shots when the weather was that bad. Usually only on a good sunny day. I'll go back sometime later this month since I have membership to the zoo. Hope the weather is better next time.:)

[Blackburnian]

Beautiful pics of beautiful cats.


Congrats.

I think I'll it the Zoo veryyyyyyyy sooooonnnn


Marc

[chemicalbro]

I don't think i've ever seen a bad photo of a tiger they are just such beautiful animals.......
i guess they outshine any weather :)
great shots given the weather.......... I prefer the bottom one........ possibly coz it's lying in water you got some help from reflected light there....... I gotta stop looking at these now coz i want a tiger and you get locked up for stuff like that..

[cc3chan]

The first shot was harder because there were trees all around forming a sort of canopy over the Sumatran tiger exhibit. Even on a good day there wouldn't be too much light in the shot. I went there during the winter and shot some with a P&S, snow was covering the ground. Blew out most of the shots.:confused: