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Postby Cows Go Moo on Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:48 pm

I think it was a rabbit. Whatever it was Tigger here liked it...

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Postby avkomp on Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:52 pm

nice and sharp

not sure if the crop works for me though.

Perhaps a tad more saturation also??

have to make sure our bunny doesnt see this.

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Postby Cows Go Moo on Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:59 pm

He was hiding and had green branches obscuring part of him which may have been a big clone job. Thought I'd see how the crop went...

I gave it a bit of saturation. Maybe I could go a tad more.
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Postby Jamie on Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:40 pm

This wasnt from the Melb zoo today was it by any chance?
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Postby Cows Go Moo on Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:18 pm

Hi Jamie, This was taken at Toronga zoo in Sydney. I was pacing up and down waiting like the tigers for dinner time hoping to get a good shot. They didn't care about the photo as much as dinner. I think they should use live food. That would be spectacular!
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Postby PiroStitch on Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:10 pm

I guess Tigger got tired of Rabbit's whinging :D
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Postby Jamie on Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:59 am

The reason i asked was because they were feeding the tiger in Melb zoo rabbit that day as well, also there was someone there with a D70 with 80 - 400VR taking pictures at the same thing.
Thought it may have been you. :)
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Postby gstark on Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:17 pm

Jamie wrote:The reason i asked was because they were feeding the tiger in Melb zoo rabbit that day as well, also there was someone there with a D70 with 80 - 400VR taking pictures at the same thing.
Thought it may have been you. :)


Birddog had a special on rabbit as tiger food last week; perhaps you missed that? It seems that neither of the zoos did. :)

The EXIF says this was shot with a D200, but I'm curious as to which lens. Aperture was f/5.6 and length was 240mm, which may well have been the 80-400.

I like the crop; I'd like to have seen this shot at an aperture that's more closely placed into the lens's sweet spot, and perhaps just a nudge of sharpening might help this along too.
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Postby Cows Go Moo on Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:47 pm

Hi Gary,

Yes it was taken with the 80-400 VR. They tend to sit a little too far away for the kit lens and quite often too close for the 80-400. He was hiding under a bambo bench chomping away with green branches to the left and right of his face. I thought I'd try a crop rather than cloning as their was a lot to get rid of.
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Postby gstark on Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:54 pm

Cows Go Moo wrote:Hi Gary,

Yes it was taken with the 80-400 VR.


OK ... you should try this sort of image again, but at an aperture around f/8 - f/11. You'll be surprised at how much difference that will make to the sharpness of your images.
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