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As anyone who is a frequent visitor to our country's lovely zoos will know, the shooting conditions are quite tough. If you're not trying to shoot through netting, wires, fences or glass, the animals are usually sitting in the furthest corner of the enclosure, either in very dark spots... or something ever worse, half in shade, half in bright sunlight.

These are a couple of shots that I'm not too displeased with, considering the conditions.

The shot of the red panda, I'm quite happy with. They are normally up in a tree, hiding behind branches and whatnot. Quite a bright background, but I managed to pull it back a touch.

The shot of the fishing cat on the other hand, was a toughie. Shot through glass, with a VERY bright background. WB has been tweaked - it was quite cool to begin with.

I think I might have to invest in a better beamer before my trip to Alaska in July this year. Sometimes you DON'T have time to stuff around with your settings before the subject disappears, so it might be best to just blast EVERYTHING with a judicious amount of flash I lost quite a number of shots due to blur and/or DOF issues.

Yeah the Red Panda is tough to shoot. When I was there I was lucky enough that it was feeding time so the red panda was there for the show.

The fishing cat however was retarded cause it kept walking back and fort on a branch. You were lucky enough that it actually kept still this time.

devilla101 wrote:The fishing cat however was retarded cause it kept walking back and fort on a branch. You were lucky enough that it actually kept still this time.

You're not wrong. Normally you don't even see the bloody thing!!

It didn't sit still long this time either, but I managed to get a couple of shots off at least!

devilla101 wrote:The fishing cat however was retarded cause it kept walking back and fort on a branch.

I doubt it is retarded and it is most likely just reacting to being in captivity. This is very common behaviour for captive "wild" animals.