 Stephanie M. Stevens |
Zoo Photography Tip I just wanted to share something I learned the other day at the San Diego Zoo, even though I think a lot of you probably already know this. If you have to shoot through bars, the best way to do it is to zoom out as far as you can. That way the bars will blur and be difficult to see, provided the animal is far enough away. However, if the sun is shining on the bars, they will be so bright they could ruin the pictures anyway, so you should try to position yourself so that you are shooting through shaded bars, if there are any. Hope this helps somebody somewhere.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
If digital or a negative that's to be scanned, if light is shining on the bars, you still might be able to hide that with some levels work with Photoshop.
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Samuel Smith |
my mother in-law used to do that,my head was never in the shot. but it was film,how did she do that? thanks stephanie for trying to let us know how to get it right.without the fix and i'll take care of it later,in bs,oh typo,ps. are your toes hurting from that?might have stepped on one. gee I scratched my left eye today while mowing,pirate here,tried to get it into photoshop and fix it,still got the patch. well I guess not in the photo?snake eyes looked cool.kind of a bart simpson on crack. I don't even have a disclaimer. i'm just hoping you can't all hate me at once,i could be wrong? ok,oh have a nice day? i'd sign this but then you'd know who I was.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Nitrogen levels still high I see.
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Samuel Smith |
just trying to start trouble,thanks for the chuckle gregory.
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Mark Feldstein |
Wait a minute !!! Sam, your mother-in-law is behind bars?? What's she in for and for how long? Should we send her an old view camera with a hack saw inside the bellows? Whaddya think? :>))) Mark
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Samuel Smith |
she should have been as many times as she cut my head off,or at least animal cruelty.thankfully i'm not part of that zoo,er family anymore. by the way,does anyone know how to get those numbers off a mug shot? thanks for the tip,sam
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Sharon Day |
ROFL @ Gregory!!!
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Mark Feldstein |
Can you get that way from Helium too? M.
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Mike Rubin |
My father has that problem. Maybe they think it's artistic to cut off heads! Thanks for the laugh.
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Allan L. Whitehead |
Stephanie, if there are wire cages involved you can eliminate them by doing a 'manual focus' on your subject while getting relatively close to the cages and that will all but eliminate the wires. I find that this works very well with my Nikon D200 - Allan W
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Daniel G. Flocke |
I use a 300mm f/2.8 and a 500mm f/4.5 prime lenses when I'm at the Zoo. For the best results get as close to the bars as possible (without breaking the rules of the zoo), also, dont stop down the lens too much (F/2.8-5.6) or you will bring the bars back into focus again no matter how close you are. Best of Luck, ~Daniel
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Samuel Smith |
thanks very much allan and daniel,it all helps.nitrogen levels...to the bat cave robin.we must save gotham city. oh boy..
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Rob Zuidema |
(I couldn't get quite close enough to the cage to 'focus out' the cage, though.)
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Samuel Smith |
very neat image though.thanks
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Ann Kittelsen |
Thank you,Stephanie, for sharing a tip when you learn it. I knew this but many may not have and if nothing else, we all got a good chuckle out of some of the responses. :)
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Samuel Smith |
hey,this can be fun? well allright..
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Stephanie M. Stevens |
What I meant was that bars in pics like Rob's would be much less noticeable if taken through bars that were shaded, instead of in sunlight.
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