we went to the zoo zoo zoo

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from a weekend trip to the maryland zoo. these are what i thought were the best of the bunch. certainly not up there with the rest of quality i see here.

these were taken with the k-m a200. a lot of fooling around with the settings which I haven' done much of recently. out of about 110 shots i ended up with a handful that I thought were decent. the main thing i learned this trip is this old camera is sllllllllooooooowwwww writing those raw files.

[toyvlle]

Hello, and welcome to DPS. Aren't the zoo's a lot of fun ? We did a recent trip to the zoo also and had such a fun day. The problem that I found with the zoo were all the shadows, you were either in total shadows or a mix of dark shadows and full sun, makes it hard to get those settings right. Especially when the animals are in this mix of light. This is a wonderful forum to learn, filled with a lot of very knowledgeable people that are so helpful. I'm looking forward to seeing more shots.

[mstark70]

Welcome! Looks like a nice day to be with the animals. I love Lemurs. So cute. The zoo can be very difficult, like toyvlle said you have sun and shade together. Then if that's not bad enough you have cages and wire or dirty glass to shoot through most of the time. I think these are very nice.