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This MAY be a continuing journal and scraps entries where I de-mystify the how (or why) I took a picture. I posted a thread a few days back about possibly doing this.
Picture "Get Out Of My Forest" was taken on December 20, 2008. I was at the Minnesota Zoo I remember this photoshoot fondly. The temperatures were about 14F during the warmest part I was out before windchill. I left taking pictures about 6 degree. So the temperature was bouncing around and I had to go inside headed building repeatedly to keep warm. Any of my friends thought I was insane for going out there but I am very happy with some of the pictures that came out of that event.
The female wolf there (her name is Waziyata) started to interact with a tree about I would say 25 feet. In the mn zoo they have some horrible viewing areas. The good news is they get you close. The bad news it's about 2" of glass or a chain fest. No matter where you take pictures at. In this picture I was kneeling in front of really bad glass. So I had to factor WHERE to shoot through the glass to ge the effect I wanted.
That is when I stsarted to take a series of pictures. The picture shows what it looks like original (crop and all). I had the settings on manual at 1/200 second for speed at 118mm it should take out the photographer out of the picture but will produce some motion blur on the subject itself. The iso rating was 400 because well the lighting really suck and to be honest iso 400 is not a bad for general picture taking. Yeah 200,100 is best but I want to make sure I get the shot I will push up the iso and do post production.
THe aperture was at f/2.8 now this gets the problem I had original with the picture. Because I rushed the focus my true focus point is the tree. The f/2.8 because of all the light it is bringing in starts to blur out the wolf and becasue the wolf was actually moving it really emphasized the shallow depth of field.
When I first looked at it I almost rejected it - a little too dark for my likes and the blur. The wolf seemed a little muffled to it.
As you can see I did a few things like crop the sides and to make the picture much more what I wanted.
I will go into more depth on changes to a picture later. I think there are not as dramatic changes to it enough to make me want to talk about it in example.
Anyways feel free to ask more questions about the picture here. Or in the journal entries (like this one) if you have another picture you want me to talk AND what to talk about.
Hope this helped
This MAY be a continuing journal and scraps entries where I de-mystify the how (or why) I took a picture. I posted a thread a few days back about possibly doing this.
Picture "Get Out Of My Forest" was taken on December 20, 2008. I was at the Minnesota Zoo I remember this photoshoot fondly. The temperatures were about 14F during the warmest part I was out before windchill. I left taking pictures about 6 degree. So the temperature was bouncing around and I had to go inside headed building repeatedly to keep warm. Any of my friends thought I was insane for going out there but I am very happy with some of the pictures that came out of that event.
The female wolf there (her name is Waziyata) started to interact with a tree about I would say 25 feet. In the mn zoo they have some horrible viewing areas. The good news is they get you close. The bad news it's about 2" of glass or a chain fest. No matter where you take pictures at. In this picture I was kneeling in front of really bad glass. So I had to factor WHERE to shoot through the glass to ge the effect I wanted.
That is when I stsarted to take a series of pictures. The picture shows what it looks like original (crop and all). I had the settings on manual at 1/200 second for speed at 118mm it should take out the photographer out of the picture but will produce some motion blur on the subject itself. The iso rating was 400 because well the lighting really suck and to be honest iso 400 is not a bad for general picture taking. Yeah 200,100 is best but I want to make sure I get the shot I will push up the iso and do post production.
THe aperture was at f/2.8 now this gets the problem I had original with the picture. Because I rushed the focus my true focus point is the tree. The f/2.8 because of all the light it is bringing in starts to blur out the wolf and becasue the wolf was actually moving it really emphasized the shallow depth of field.
When I first looked at it I almost rejected it - a little too dark for my likes and the blur. The wolf seemed a little muffled to it.
As you can see I did a few things like crop the sides and to make the picture much more what I wanted.
I will go into more depth on changes to a picture later. I think there are not as dramatic changes to it enough to make me want to talk about it in example.
Anyways feel free to ask more questions about the picture here. Or in the journal entries (like this one) if you have another picture you want me to talk AND what to talk about.
Hope this helped
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Wolf
Size 1024 x 683px
File Size 140 kB
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