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nah its some cheap little zoo here in tampa, lowry park zoo..

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM telephoto zoom lens .. not sure I'm still kinda new to the camera stuff still.. not sure what DO one

Dek wrote:nah its some cheap little zoo here in tampa, lowry park zoo..

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM telephoto zoom lens .. not sure I'm still kinda new to the camera stuff still.. not sure what DO one

where in tampa do you live.... i'm right by Macdill

Here's some picture of monkeys I took at the San Diego zoo (70-300mm DO IS etc) ... it was late in the day so it was all shadowy.

Dek wrote:nah its some cheap little zoo here in tampa, lowry park zoo..

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM telephoto zoom lens .. not sure I'm still kinda new to the camera stuff still.. not sure what DO one

It's this thing

http://www.photo.net/equipment/canon/70-300do/

lols.. nice file name on the first one


oh, and I found out that if you apply a high contrast USM to the DO pics, you get much better detail.. just do a USM in PS with 20%, 50 px and 0 threshold

Dave wrote:lols.. nice file name on the first one

heh... i didn't think you people would be so quick

wait a minute...if we evolved from monkeys and apes, why are there monkeys and apes in those pics?


nice shots, btw.

andyman wrote:

Dave wrote:

mjrpes wrote:Is this San Diego zoo?

And when you say you use the 70-300mm lens, are you talking about the DO one?

He's got the normal one.. i have the DO

Something about these pics makes me want to turn them into some grainy B&W things
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that takes away from the intricacy of the bird...

Maybe.. but it depends on if you're looking at the bird as just a bird, or if you're trying to imagine some meaning behind the bird

Parrot and Eagle look the best to me but all look good.

If you enjoy the pictures you take and have fun doing it that's all that matters


*Nikon coolpix885 is what I use*

I live in Brandon... heres a few more pics of the eagle..

that is a badass eagle..

Dave wrote:
oh, and I found out that if you apply a high contrast USM to the DO pics, you get much better detail.. just do a USM in PS with 20%, 50 px and 0 threshold

yeah... amazing what USM can do.

i sometimes do a two process USM. First a low percentage and high pixel (maybe a 20%, 50px like you did) pass, then a high percentage and low pixel pass (say 170%, 0.5px). The first pass acts like a contrast, and the second makes the edges crisp.

So my monkey pic turns into...



only problem is it brings out the noise.

eagle pics are awesome... well done.

That USM trick usually works a lot better than the normal contrast adjusting methods, but it can do some crazy shit to your pictures

i'll have to mess around with usm.. a bit

mjrpes wrote:

Dave wrote:
oh, and I found out that if you apply a high contrast USM to the DO pics, you get much better detail.. just do a USM in PS with 20%, 50 px and 0 threshold

yeah... amazing what USM can do.

i sometimes do a two process USM. First a low percentage and high pixel (maybe a 20%, 50px like you did) pass, then a high percentage and low pixel pass (say 170%, 0.5px). The first pass acts like a contrast, and the second makes the edges crisp.

So my monkey pic turns into...



only problem is it brings out the noise.

and thats a nice pic!

here's a pic of a ring tailed lemur...

LOL!

"WHAT?!?! I wasn't licking my balls!"

Nice shots Dek. Very crisp.

Like the shots.

Liked Daves Black and white ones in the other thread but didnt care for the color ones.

Sometimes Life needs to be captured in diffrent mediams to achive full effect, if you will.

Thx for shareing.

These photo threads are very cool. on 56 ghey it does take a lot of patience to see them, but so far they have been worth it!

I really liked Dave's pics and these are good too.

I took a lot of zoo pics back in 80-82 with my AE-1 and they never came out as crisp as yours look. I know it could be done, but I couldn't get that quality. Also zoos have become, I think, more photo freindly than they were 25 years ago.

If I get a chance I'll post some pics I took at the Dallas zoo in 1980, during a typical hot crappy Texas summer.

Good work Dek! Post more.
Dave too! Make a deal with the Iowa drill team

Nice pics Dek!

Dek wrote:

what a whore...

She reminds me of that slurpee drinking chick on squidbillies

ForM wrote:Like the shots.

Liked Daves Black and white ones in the other thread but didnt care for the color ones.

Sometimes Life needs to be captured in diffrent mediams to achive full effect, if you will.

Thx for shareing.

heh. thx. i didn't convert dekard's eagle to B&W because I thought it was bad in color.. i converted it to B&W because I have a thing for B&W :icon25:

The conversion of the b/w eagele was shit imho.

But the row team and the the car was super.


Sometimes ya have to keep things simple.

why was it shit? I mean it's one thing to critique something and another to call it shit.