Zoo Pictures

Pooja and I went to the Zoo on Sunday so we could see the new Polar Bear exhibit, but mostly so I could practice my photography skills. I really like how you can compose a shot, and snap it instantly with the DSLR. I also found when focusing on an all white subject (like a polar bear), surrounded by dark grass and dirt, I probably need to switch off of the default evaluative metering, and go with spot metering with AF lock. I took about 10 pictures of that bear, and my exposure settings were all over the place.

Pooja took some pictures too. You can tell which ones are her's since most of them are extreme close-ups of flowers. I also taught her how to mess with the shutter speed to make water seem like glass, and also to catch each droplet. She seemed to like that.

I'm putting up on of my fav shots from the day in theory, but not execution. We found this deer just perched really close to us on a rock, starting off to the right, just begging to be captured. The shots seemed to all be really bright off the deer, and really dark off the background. I tried my best in the RAW editor to tweak the settings to balance out the colors. I still think its pretty sharp.

Once I go through the hundred or so pictures, and delete all the crap (95% of it), i'll post some more keepers from the Zoo trip.