Next in my holiday photos instalment.
We spent a day in Adelaide Zoo, and I actually had a zoom lens, which was extremely fun. On previous zoo trips I've always had to make do with a standard 18-50mm lens, but I now possess a 40-150mm, which makes zoo photos much easier. For those interested in such things, I was using an Olympus PEN EP-3.
I love taking photos in zoos, I get lots of reference material, so I'll happily snap away at the animals just moving around and in different positions (I never know what I may suddenly be called upon to draw), but I also like to work at some shots so that I get some good photos as well. I took several hundred photos that day, and these are my favourites.
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Crested pigeons are always fun |
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Pygmy marmoset |
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Hippopotamus |
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Miraculously clear two-toed sloth (I literally couldn't see anything in that nocturnal house, it makes it extremely hard to focus!) |
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Yellow-footed rock wallaby |
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Barbary sheep |
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Freshwater turtle, possibly a snake-necked turtle, or a mata mata |
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Gipsland water dragon (I think) |
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Wang Wang, the zoo's male panda |
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Chestnut-breasted finch |
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Greater flamingo, which arrived at the zoo in 1933 |
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Star finch |
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Bush thick-knee |
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These two were in an enclosure labeled 'Siamang' but I'm told they're more likely to be Nomascus gibbons |
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Baby tree kangaroo |
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I love otters |
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Is any zoo post complete without a smug meerkat? |
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Kookaburra |
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Red panda – I had to wait ages for a good shot of this, they're so elusive. And I got trodden on by a kid for my pains =P |
Most of these have had standard post-processing in Adobe Photoshop CS6 – curves, sharpening, colour adjustments where necessary, and the occasional crop – but the panda had more intensive work; they were behind hideously reflective glass, so I edited out the distracting reflections. I also made the sloth black and white, because it was distressingly blue, due to the nocturnal house lights.
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