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ElZilcho posted:Where did you get that picture?, looks too nice and clean to be out in the ocean! Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. It took a bit of cleaning up in Photoshop. Here's the original: 
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Finally getting around to processing my giant backlog of photos. Cheetah by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Hippopotamus by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Panamanian Golden Frog by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Caucasus Viper by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Hummingbird by William T Hornaday, on Flickr
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Cross-posting a few from SAD. Mandrill by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Goeldi's Monkey by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Tawny Eagle by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  African Painted Dog by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Green Tree Python by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Horned Puffin by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Kookaburra by William T Hornaday, on Flickr
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InternetJunky posted:I love seeing your name pop up on this thread because it means more fantastic photos. Thanks. Here's more.  Blue-Bellied Roller by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Chimpanzee by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Amazon Milky Frog by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Red-Billed Toucan by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Somali Wild rear end by William T Hornaday, on Flickr William T. Hornaday fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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Kenshin posted:Good lord those are beautiful. Where are you taking these exactly? Various zoos.  Blue-Crowned Motmot by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Ring-Tailed Lemur by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Black And White Ruffed Lemur by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Cinereous Vulture by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Chimpanzee by William T Hornaday, on Flickr
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Kenshin posted:I need to not feel weird about taking my 400mm to the zoo. I can't imagine any reason why you should feel weird bringing it.
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My standard gear is a Canon 7D, a 70-200 2.8L IS, a 12 mm extension tube, a 580EXII, and a 24-70 2.8L (that I almost never actually end up using.) I'm gonna be getting a 400 5.6L sometime soon which should be fun, but honestly the 70-200 is my favorite thing in the world and I'll probably still be using it 90% of the time. I've never had any sort of huge issue with people giving me crap for my camera. Occasionally I'll have people tell me, "Wow, that's a nice camera" and "Ooh, there's a good shot over here" (which it never is.) Just bring some headphones and make it clear that you're ignoring people.
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ExecuDork posted:I know you gave us a write-up a while ago about your techniques, both shooting and editing, but I was wondering specifically if you had any advice regarding shooting through glass. Shooting through glass is really hit or miss. The main problem with the stuff at zoos is that it's primarily built for strength, with optical clarity a distance second. Sometimes the windows are glass, sometimes they're acrylic, sometimes they're polycarbonate, sometimes they're a combination these and/or other space-age materials. But regardless what it’s made out of, smaller is usually better. Herps and inverts don’t require much strength for containment/safety purposes and the exhibits are small enough that the windows can afford to be like 1/4 to 1/2” thick. But as both the animals and exhibits start to get larger, that’s when poo poo starts to get crazy. Birds and small mammals can be around 1” thick, carnivores and great apes can be around 2-3” thick, and hippos and other exhibits with underwater viewing can easily be 4” thick or more. All the crazy refraction from that coupled with the less-than-optimal optical quality of the glass (e.g., the windows in our great ape exhibits consist of three 1” sheets of bulletproof glass laminated together,) and you’re already fighting an uphill battle before you even touch your camera. On top of this, the thicker windows usually have a weird bluish-green color cast (that somehow seems to change from photo to photo) and any direct sunlight falling on them will make everything look hazy. So it’s super easy to end up with a photo that looks soft, has a splotchy and inconsistent focal plane, low contrast, and looks like you ran it through a lovely Instagram filter. Your best bet is pretty much to be as perpendicular to the glass as possible. Also, if you’re using a hood and can get right up to the glass, shooting straight on will more or less eliminate any issues with reflections you might have. I do tend to get a lot of people coming up to me complaining about reflections (right after they stood 10 feet back from the glass to try and take a photo.) It’s really pretty simple: if whatever is on your side of the glass is brighter than what’s on the other side, you’re gonna see a reflection. And you don’t necessarily have to mash your camera right up to the glass every time; if you can find something dark in the reflection, you can shoot through that. Heck, if you wear a dark/black shirt you can be able to stand back a few feet from the glass and, as long as you’re shooting through the reflection of the shirt, still be able to get a clean image. And because I don’t want to be limited to shooting perpendicular to the glass all the time, I made a secondary hood (out of a strip of velcro and some black foam sheet that I got from a craft store) that’s angled at 45-degrees which I can just throw on the end of my hood when I need it. Although anything more than that and everything will get pretty wonky with the refraction, even with the thinner stuff. Dirty glass is another issue, but usually is not at all noticeable when you’ve got a telephoto right up against the glass. Bringing something to clean the glass is probably a handy thing to have, but I’ve just been too lazy to actually do it. Plus I do most of my photography first thing in the morning and the windows are usually cleaned at this time; bonus is that there are far fewer people wandering around, the light is better than the rest of the day, and many of the animals are most active then. Honestly, I’ve found the visitor side of the glass to be far dirtier than the animal side; in fact, I actively avoid touching the windows because I routinely get to see how many disgusting children have licked and sneezed all over it. For the most part, I’m just capturing the animals doing whatever they’re doing. It’s a lot of patience and waiting, but it really helps to be an animal person and be able to recognize patterns in behavior, to know the natural histories of the species to understand their mannerisms and tendencies, and to anticipate how they’ll act. And taking a whole shitload of pictures and throwing out most of them. Knocking on the glass is a waste of time and guaranteed to make the keepers hate you. And depending on the individual animals and species, it can become a major source of stress. But really, it achieves nothing. The vast majority of the animals have learned to completely zone out everything that is happening beyond the glass and won’t respond to or acknowledge you in any way. Some of the primates species may be interested in certain things and come over just to check them out, but they’re not going to come running down to see you just because you’re pounding your fists on the window or making kissing noises at them (I seriously don’t understand why people do this.) Headphones work fantastically most of the time. Generally people know not to bother you, and you also don’t have to hear the inane comments of the horrible morons around you and their screaming children. You’ll occasionally get that one obnoxious person who can’t take the hint and just has to know if you work for the zoo or how much your camera cost, but they’re usually satisfied with a one-word answer and I’ve never had any issues with someone who just won’t leave me alone. That's a lot of words, so here's some pictures to even it out.  Chimpanzee by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Coquerel's Sifaka by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Victoria Crowned Pigeon by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Yellow-Banded Poison Dart Frog by William T Hornaday, on Flickr Oh, and bring a tripod for herps.
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Jimlad posted:Interesting... does that mean that your shots are generally handheld with IS, or are you using a tripod? The only time I use a tripod is with herps, because the lighting usually sucks and they tend to just sit perfectly still for very long periods of time, so it's pretty convenient for slow shutter speeds and focus stacking. Otherwise everything is handheld; just relying on available light (when outside) or a flash bounced at the ceiling and/or wall (when inside.) The extension tube cuts way down on the minimum focusing distance of the lens. When on a zoom lens it tends to gently caress everything all to hell and can be a bit of a headache to use, but you kinda learn to deal with it after a while. I use it a ton on my 70-200; that's what most of my closeups are with.
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Jimlad posted:Wow, I'm surprised they let you use flash. I always thought normally that's a bad idea with wildlife? Anyway, I think you've inspired me enough to go and try photographing animals. I just got a nice new 135mm lens so next weekend it'll be off to the zoo for me. 'They' is basically me. Don't use flash on nocturnal exhibits, or if there's a sign telling you not to, or someone tells you to stop, or it's clearly bothering the animals. Otherwise it's fine.
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Fraction posted:Bugs count as wildlife, right? (photodump!) These aren't bugs, duder.
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The processing, mostly. I mean, it looks like you applied a Glow Edges filter to the antlers. It's pretty badly over-processed. What'd the original look like?
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I'm not entirely convinced the processing doesn't come across looking like some lovely hack job, but I'm don't feel like spending any more time on it. So, yeah. Chimpanzee by William T Hornaday, on Flickr
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Fart Amplifier posted:Well, for what it's worth, I'm entirely convinced the processing doesn't come across looking like some lovely hack job. InternetJunky posted:I'm entirely convinced the processing is awesome. Whatever you're doing keep it up because this is an amazing portrait. Thanks. There are just so many really lovely, low key lighting, masking jobs on Flickr (e.g., radial solid black gradient) and sometimes I worry that I occasionally stumble into being one of them.
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goattrails posted:I posted a couble of Bear Cubs here: https://500px.com/photo/93877441/ You could probably afford to ease up on the vignette quite a bit on that one.
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WildDeath Photography.
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HookShot posted:It's probably a good thing you didn't, zoos in European cities are like hands down the most depressing things you will ever see, in my experience. Netherlands has some phenomenal zoos. You want depressing? Check out some Chinese zoos.
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Kenshin posted:All of those pictures are amazing (honestly if you aren't the official photographer for your local zoo already I can't imagine why) but this is super adorable and reminds me of the videos on youtube where people feed tiny burritos to hamsters. Too busy being the one taking care of the animals, mostly. Plus my zoo has throngs of volunteer photographers that it seems content with. And the grill was part of our 4th of July enrichment celebration. Also had a little Liberty Bell for the ring-tailed lemurs, among other things.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:How can you be retarded enough to go near any wild animal let alone a massive hunk of angry muscle and horn? We don't have anything like that in Australia unless you count big buff male kangaroos but it seems like most people here know not to have anything to do with them unless they come to you. If there's anything that my job has taught me, it's that Americans are complete morons when it comes to understanding animals.
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Anubis posted:(Really like this next shot but because it was through a fence it has some weirdness that I haven't been able to get out. Any advice on how to post that out?) Curves layer (and maybe a smidge of warmth) in Photoshop to boost the contrast a little bit, and just paint it over any hazy spots caused by the mesh. Not going to be perfect, but will help a little.
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Got to meet Joel Sartore yesterday. He was in town as the keynote speaker for one of our big conservation donor banquets and opted to do squeeze in some photo shoots for his Photo Ark project. Hung out with him all afternoon while he took photos of a pair of our black lemurs. Nice guy.
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Protip: Go by yourself.
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Proboscis monkeys! They're beautiful.
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Went to Alaska. Saw some seals.  Harbor Seals by William T Hornaday, on Flickr Saw some sea lions.  Steller Sea Lion by William T Hornaday, on Flickr Saw some puffins.  Horned Puffin by William T Hornaday, on Flickr Saw some bears.  Brown Bear by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Brown Bear by William T Hornaday, on Flickr Saw some sea otters.  Sea Otter by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Sea Otters by William T Hornaday, on Flickr One otter was lunching on an octopus.  Sea Otter Eating Octopus by William T Hornaday, on Flickr And saw a bunch of whales.  Humpback Whale by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Humpback Whale by William T Hornaday, on Flickr  Humpback Whale by William T Hornaday, on Flickr It was fun.
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Stayed in Seward the whole time. We did a day trip with Kenai Fjords Tours that took us out to Holgate Glacier and that's when we saw most of the sea life, except the otters who were just hanging around Resurrection Bay and were viewable from shore. And we stopped by the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center and Alaska Sealife Center as well.
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InternetJunky posted:Some real great stuff as usual. Was the puffin just a random sea bird in the area or was there a colony you could get to? I'm planning an Alaskan trip as well and would love to check them out. We saw lots of puffins from the boat, but this one was at the Alaska Sealife Center. The bear was at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center.
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