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Now on to the reptile house! A favorite place of mine for more than five decades (story here), seeing these critters always fascinates. Now being able to capture them for posterity takes it to a new level.
Knowing how dark it was inside, for these I cranked the ISO up to 1600 - something I would not have done with the D300s, but handled beautifully with the Bigger Cahoona. There was lots of press about how it's almost impossible to hand-hold the D850 because of the very high resolution, but I found on this visit that, with my style of shooting, the results are about the same as what I'm used to with the D300s.
The red flower things are fake but everything else is real...
Who says animals can't take good portraits? This little guy had a severely injured left eye, so had to overlay a copy of the right eye in its place.
Card below also "in development". Still learning how to do lots of things in Photoshop...
...and for your more traditional pose. Could photograph simians all day long.
Card below is still "in development":
Snapping away, tried to capture every conceivable angle that might look interesting. Many would ask, "Why the backside of a monkey?" (in fact someone did) Answer - 'cause I just like it...
Elbows on a railing helped keep the Bigger Cahoona steady during the tenth of a second it took to get this exposure.
These guys were everywhere around the zoo grounds at the time of this photo shoot, back in November.
Felt comfortable cranking the ISO up to 1600 at f5.3 in this exhibit area; the shutter speed was 1/60th of a second. Promotional card below (still in development), using the color from one of the brighter areas of the medulla for the lettering:
The wife asks, "Why do you need to make so many cards?". The answer is that I don't; I'm using these only as an opportunity to practice Photoshop skills, though some may end up in print someday...
Now THIS is where the Bigger Cahoona (D850) really showed its stuff...no way I could have captured something like this even with the Big Cahoona (D300s). In post-capture I was amazed at the quality that could be extracted from all those pixels in very challenging, low-light conditions.
Similar subjects below, as well as a business card (still in development) promoting this blog using the photo above. Think I'll save the best one of all for tomorrow's post...
