zoo pics with new cam 56 ghey warning

[ForM]

It was pixelated/grainey did not have the crispness.

*shrugs*

[Dukester]

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.

wow I thought just the opposite.
I didn't really prefer the rowers black & white but I liked the eagle :icon26:

[Dave]

I added the grain in, but to each his own, i guess...

btw, here's one of the b&w shots straight out of camera

[Grandpa Stu]

haha lemurs crack me up. i love that picture.

[Grandpa Stu]

yeah that pic looks better black and white. partially because it hides the hideous color combination that the girl is wearing with the pink and green.

[Dave]

i'm still partial to that emu

[Dave]

yeah that pic looks better black and white. partially because it hides the hideous color combination that the girl is wearing with the pink and green.

heh.. funny you should metion that shirt. I saw them passing under the bridge, so i stood above and took a shot. I desaturated that green because it bugged the hell out of me

[ForM]

@ the Emu

[R3pl1c4t0r]

those eagle pics are cool

[Dukester]

ok here are pictures I took at 18 yr old in 1980 at the Dallas zoo. I am not trying to derail this thread just said I would post these pics so I am.

taken by an idiot with a Canon AE-1 with a Tokina 80-200 zoom 1:4

my own comments on these pictures will follow..(after looking at Deks)

my pictures are not crisp. I'm not sure if thats because I scanned them to big or what, but his are very sharp. Mine are scans from whatever size regular prints re made to, I scanned them from prints.

The main thing I took away from this is this...

Dek went to the zoo and took some pix. His are colorful and sharp. Mine are almost monotome and fuzzy. Now I know you can take sharp pics with an AE-1 so scanning has to be a factor and my questionable skills as a photog are also in question.

His are colorful. In mine every animal seems to be trying to blend in with the color of the bricks or dirt or sand its in


also another thing I have noticed is the type of zoo. While Dek says its a crummy litle zoo in Tampa. His crummy little zoo in tampa in 2006 is way better than the crummy zoo in Dallas was in 1980. It was like 103 out ther thats why I have no bear pictures!! They id away in ther caves out of the sun

Anyway, I have got to get a digital SLR

(I also wonder looking at these pix as old as they are, how many of these animals are still alive? Maybe the baby hippo and the giraffe, )

[FragaGeddon]

I'm thinking about buying a new digital camera.
Probably a 5 MP Canon, but would want something slim and small.
Nothing like as big as a digital rebel and probably for around $300 cdn.

[Transient]

Here's a tip: don't center your subject matter; dynamic shots are more attractive to the eye

Then again, if these are just "I went to the zoo, look what I saw," type pictures, they're fine.

[SplishSplash]

haha sitting giraffes look really retarded

[Whiskey 7]

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

You hit it right on the head :icon14:

Nice pics Dek but my favourite is

[Ryoki]

cool pics, i especially like the eagle :icon14:

[Ryoki]

And here's my contribution to this thread:

[MKJ]

"Would I buy these pics to use them for serious work?"

First pic: Not quite sharp enough
Second pic: Impossible to separate from the background
Third pic: Bad lighting, impossible to separate
Fourth pic: Way too much light on the elephant's forehead
Fifth pic: Technically alright
Sixth pic: Bad lighting, left side is too dark, right side is too bright
Seventh: Technically alright
Eighth: Bad lighting, too dark

"Impossible" means "not possible within reasonable amounts of time/effort"

Apart from that I'd never buy them because they're absolutely boring shots. Throw those fuckers some peanuts next time.

photoshop can do a lot

also, at the giraffe

[Dek]

I think I'm going to keep hitting some of the sites around the state like weekie watchie, disney, etc and keep practicing..

these are pretty much the first pics I've taken with the camera and they were all 'auto'...

I hadn't even messed with the manual aperature or exposure settings.. I'm going to mess around this week with some still life stuff using bracketing to hopefully figure some of this stuff out, it's got so many features and buttons

[Transient]

So is photography a minor hobby for you, or are you trying to really dive into it?

[Dek]

Also those pics haven't been cropped or anything yet, just pretty much straight from the camera..

Transient: I've always been interested in it, just never had the cash for a decent camera, my sister is a photographer (mostly weddings).

Now that I have the camera I plan it to be a minor hobby for me, but I'm really trying to dive in as well here at first so I can get some decent pics.

Also want to take pics to use as references for texture work for school/work for use in maya/3dsmax.

[Underpants?]

good job, knob.

[Dek]

..

Looks like that orangutaun is eating croutons and put one in his ear for fun...

[eMu]

i'm still partial to that emu

as soon as doomer finds time to update the icons it'll be back!! fags.

[Dek]

Ok, I ran some through the USM and cropped them a little more creatively. How's these look better??

[Guest]

Looks much better with the crop and USM :icon14:

The pics are a bit too huge, I suggest that you resize them to 700px wide, they will look better that way.