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Not too sharp at all, but the pose was great. I had to shoot over a bunch of wild kids, and it was almost a
reflex popping off a shot, since I saw the Orang Utan was swinging wildly...I was kinda running by. THE THINKER http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psde3f6625.jpg |
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Oops, I forgot to share that last tiger photo....I called this tiger melanistic, that was wrong.
I think it is even wrong to call it a cross-bred Bengal Tiger. This is just a recessive trait from what I gather. This tiger is this color for the same reason that the White Tiger is white. Not Albinism, just an expression of a recessive gene. This is what the zoo calls "strawberry colored". We of course know that this is called a Ginger Tiger, lol. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2b63bb43.jpg While I am on that subject, too, remember I said EVERY TIME the regular bengal tiger passed the strawberry tiger, it caused a turf war response. They can be in the same enclosure, but the Ginger Tiger takes offense when the other Bengal comes within a pre-defined space, and man, does she flare back and roar....Here you see this in action. For what its worth, the regular Bengal makes absolutely no sign that he even notices, but he doesn't LOOK at her either. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psa12fcc7c.jpg |
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looks like Oliver The Humanzee
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Todays fun...
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The question is. Did you catch Bigfoot Justin
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Trip to the Alligator Farm today. Got some pix of gators and such. Lots of birds too.
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That looks like 3 species of crocodilians there. Bottom one's a Caiman, right? I know that middle one is a a Gharial
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I have a whole sh** load of pics to post, but no way to post them here. I'm kinda in the wilds of upper Michigan right now, but will be back in Motown sometime tomorrow (after a 8 or 9 hour drive lol).
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Heres some more from the trip. The two birds and the monkeys were shot thru mesh screens and the komodo was shot thru glass.
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Au Sable Point lighthouse on Lake Superior. It began operation in 1874. |
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What's left of a ship that wrecked along Pictured Rocks. |
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So I guess there is no longer any question that it was the camera all this time holding you back.
I bet you about 5hit yourself when you got home and saw the photos. Since you are not a Brad, and you don't talk much about buying new this or that, I am guessing that is the 18-55mm? I never thought that much about those lenses til I strapped it onto that D90. Turns out it can be razor sharp. And the D90 is a color master. I am HIGHLY impressed by your color, clarity and crispness. The gauntlet has been thrown down, lol. |
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The lighthouse one and the one of the rocky ledge along the shore were the 18-55, but the others were the 50mm 1.8G
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Not all sandy beaches. A lot of that rock is close to a half billion years old.
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This is called Miner's Castle. It doesn't look much like a castle anymore, since a chunk of the formation broke off a few years ago. This is also the 18-55 lens.
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Plenty of waterfalls in this region of the Western Upper Peninsula, too: 70-210mm lens, 1/5 second, f/29
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Laughing Whitefish Falls:
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Ship parked at an ore dock in Marquette, MI early in the morning. Even at 3200 ISO this is pretty good:
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I will offer one bit of advice to you, although from what I see, you might not need it.
If you could pick up a $15 neutral density filter, you could use the shutter speeds you want for waterfalls and still keep a nice healthy aperture opening, likely something approaching f/11 or even f/8. Lenses stopped down towards the very end of their range tend to have greatly reduced sharpness and detail due to diffraction. But again, your shots look nice as is. |
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Those 18-55s are a REAL surprise to me. I really thought they would be utter crap,
and when I pay attention, I am just so surprised by the acuity they have. They really pass on the color to the sensor. half a billion years, huh? So about as old as my johnson. |
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I wanted to post this photo just to show how much it sucks when you don't pay attention.
When I get to the zoo, I bolt for the Lions and if they are out, I just start shooting away. They are SO DAMN photogenic. Same in N.O., I get there and I am so excited to begin shooting that I always screw something up, leave a setting tweaked wrong, forget to set auto-focus, I do something EVERY TIME the shot is on the line. I set up the D90 with a 70-300mm lens, a slow one, and started shooting away with it. I didn't check the histogram on the first shot, I barely even reviewed the results and adjusted from there. It is my best camera, why would I think it would shoot poorly? So I shot on this all day, not knowing that I should have dialed in -.07 in exposure compensation. All my shots were washed out to some degree. So I had to FIX this shot, and still barely escaped with anything I would want to show somebody. But the subject matter, this was great. You have to hang around this enclosure for hours to see this bear do this. But I sensed he was gonna do it. He usually does soon after he sits down on his butt and holds his feet, which he did a few minutes prior to this shot. I am getting to know these animals so well, lol. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psbf62f063.jpg |
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Dancing Bear! Didn't the Mamas and Papas record a song along those lines? :r
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The Mighty Mac, AKA the Mackinaw Bridge between the two Peninsulas. It connects Mackinaw City to St. Ignace:
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Mighty Mac from St. Ignace, in the UP. Total bridge length is 5 miles, total length of the suspension part is 8614 feet, and at mid-span your vehicle is 200 feet above the surface of the lakes, and that water is 295 feet deep at that point
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Nice shots Hotreds! What F stop and shutter speed did you use for those? I've never been able to get very nice fireworks shots.
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For Hugh, and for them what cares, here are some shots I took from the Wilber's Bar-B-Que parking lot at the
end of the runway back in what was likely 1981. I was stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB, and while I was often at the end of the runway running checks of systems prior to takeoff, there were no cameras allowed there. So if I was shooting these shots, it was at Wilber's. Just a note to anyone travelling along the interiors of NC and you are looking for great BBQ, albeit NC style, check out Wilber's GREAT FOOD. I never will forget the day I was walking in to eat, a F-14 flew over to land, and I had had up to that point, NO IDEA how large that aircraft was, I thought it was like a F-4 or similar. That sucker had to be at least twice the size of a F4. I was stunned. I had an old "Sears" SLR camera made by Mamiya, and likely the slowest lens you could get, lol. It had the now rare to find screw mount. SORRY to all about the color and contrast...shooting into the sun never looks good. Likely just back from the Dare County Range out near the Atlantic, you can tell its landing because of the drogue chute. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1d6aa87c.jpg Same aircraft likely http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps73035a15.jpg Quick checks prior to takeoff http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psf5729706.jpg Landing at Seymour Johnson, AFB http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps91acbca8.jpg |
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Second round of the Seymour Johnson Slides.....
I guess I should have taken these into Photoshop and altered their odd white balance, but ehh, they were already uploaded to the bucket B52-G landing at Seymour.......how they don't fracture into pieces every time they land is beyond me. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...pse6c08c1b.jpg Hell I GUESS they are G models, I am sifting through my memory of 30+ years ago... http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3368108f.jpg Phantom coming in on the downwind leg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps62da5285.jpg |
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Kind of a mix of different time periods going on here...
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Actress in the show "Simply Gershwin", a musical comedy with dancing from George and Ira's time. It was part of the Ragtime Street fair at Greenfield Village.
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That's the Doolittle Raid plane, right? My two guesses, without resorting to Guugle, are B-24 or DeHaviland Mosquito.
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B-25, plane used on Doolittle raid, in fact.
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This made me laugh....I walked up on the wolves and they were howling up a storm, and even after the alpha saw me, he kept on with it, but he was RIGHT NEXT TO a fence, and the shot was crap. So I walked around to shoot the other wolves howling, but once they saw me it was over in an instant. And also, once they stopped howling, pecking order immediately took over again, and this wolf was run off by a higher-ranking wolf. i like how he is not only running away, but sticking out his tongue, haha. |
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This is the saddest part of the lives of my new best friends at the Memphis Zoo. They have a really
cool area to hang out in, but it is NOT what they would like best. Sure there are tunnels, and yes there is sand spread over the top of it, but concrete tunnels lead to scraped up noses, and I hate it for em. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psf52728cb.jpg |
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