Various portraits of animals in captivity

I've been to several places where animals are being kept in captivity recently -- Zoo's, faires, wildlife foundtaions, and shows. Tried to get up close with them -- mostly with my 400 5.6L. Here are some shots!

ent to the zoo with my 400 5.6L and tried to get some portrait shots of animals. How'd I do?

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Gona bump this one time.

Great shots.

Love the eagle and the tiger sad.

DocFrankenstein wrote in post #16447447
Great shots.

Love the eagle and the tiger sad.

Thank you! The tiger shot is my favorite as well

Very nice!

i like the cats the most

those tiger shots make me sad. both of them look broken. good job on the pics though.

jptsr1 wrote in post #16452594
those tiger shots make me sad. both of them look broken. good job on the pics though.

It does make me sad as well, but that second tiger (in chains) is an Orange Tabby Tiger. There are only about 30 in the world, and at one point there were only 3 left in existence.

That chained tiger does make a sad picture. You conveyed the mood well.

The bird shots have places where a dark part of the bird's anatomy is lost in a black background. If I'd been there, I would have tried to move around to get a lighter background for contrast. Maybe nothing was available.