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Shooting Hundreds of Wild Animals
December 16, 2007
… no, with a camera … I mean really, it says Photography; did I file this under Bloodsport?
Any way (har har), as you might imagine, photographing animals isn’t as easy as it sounds; even at the zoo, which is where I spent the better part of my Saturday afternoon this week, perhaps for the last time until after Christmas.
I discovered (but might’ve expected) that animals really don’t pose well–they tend to either be sleeping (easier to shoot, but boring) or tearing about their pens. The enclosures (glass, fence, fake natural habitat, etc.) consistently threw off my auto-focus–nothing like trying to catch a fleeing lemur and getting a crisp leaf instead–and I was disappointed with how poorly I shot manually. Lighting too was extremely uneven, and so what I ended up with was mostly a bunch of slightly too-light or -dark photos of blurry animals. Even the meerkat photos weren’t as cool as I would’ve hoped.
All the same, it was a fun day, and I enjoyed playing National Geographic photographer (I have a new respect for their job, and I think it’d be even tougher knowing I can be eaten by my subjects), having pizza in the “McKaw cafe” (surprisingly good, I was expecting a cold burger basket for $9.95) and of course laughing at a passerby who had the balls to wear a leopard-print coat to the zoo.
I got a couple of relatively cool shots which I will post later when I feel like editing them for size. Until then,
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