Ian Cassell
11-18-2010, 12:00 PM
Another from my visit to the Phoenix Zoo this past weekend
Canon 7D
Sigma 100-300mm f/4
1/640 f/4 ISO 3200 HH
S/H CS5, Sharpening in GF6/CS5, NR in Noiseware Pro
It was a challenge getting any image at all here. It was dark in the caged area and there was a chain-link front to the cage with caked-on dirt on all the links. I was separated from the chain-link by several feet due to a second fence. Somehow, I managed to get the lion far enough behind the links so I could selectively blur them out with my wide aperture but not so far that I needed a would have needed a major crop. Between situations like this and cages with poor lighting, dirty glass, or tight-weave link, sometimes I feel that zoos have it in for photographers.
Canon 7D
Sigma 100-300mm f/4
1/640 f/4 ISO 3200 HH
S/H CS5, Sharpening in GF6/CS5, NR in Noiseware Pro
It was a challenge getting any image at all here. It was dark in the caged area and there was a chain-link front to the cage with caked-on dirt on all the links. I was separated from the chain-link by several feet due to a second fence. Somehow, I managed to get the lion far enough behind the links so I could selectively blur them out with my wide aperture but not so far that I needed a would have needed a major crop. Between situations like this and cages with poor lighting, dirty glass, or tight-weave link, sometimes I feel that zoos have it in for photographers.