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Postby KerryPierce on Thu May 26, 2005 3:45 pm

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1/125s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso1600 hand held

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Postby Killakoala on Thu May 26, 2005 3:53 pm

Awesome pic of a ferocious animal. Unless of course it's someone's pet :)

Was this in the wild? He has a very interesting expression on his face. Kinda cute :) Reminds me a bit of the 'Last photograph i ever took' series :)
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Postby Hlop on Thu May 26, 2005 4:01 pm

Nice grin :)

Could you tell why ISO1600? If I'd shoot with ISO1600, it'd be plenty of noise but I don't see any on your picture. Any noise reduction?
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Postby kipper on Thu May 26, 2005 5:59 pm

Hlop, give he shot at 1/125, F/5.6 and ISO1600, I'd take a stab and say the lighting sucked? :)


As for being a pet, given the way the hairs around the top of it's head are on end and it's ear positioning, I'd say that it's very on edge. Then again I could be wrong.
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Postby BBJ on Thu May 26, 2005 6:06 pm

On edge or that bloody old he cant do jack,LOL But Kerry, great pic as usual and yes those iso get me as i have never tried using iso at this level before. Well done mate.
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Postby mudder on Thu May 26, 2005 8:29 pm

Great nature shot Kerry, good eye contact, looks like a poor fella that's struggling...

Also ISO 1600, did you perform noise reduction on the background on a seperate layer in PS or something, the body of the wolf seems to show some colour noise (less than I would have expected at ISP1600 tho!) but not in the background? Or is it just me?
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Postby gstark on Thu May 26, 2005 9:05 pm

Hlop wrote:Nice grin :)

Could you tell why ISO1600? If I'd shoot with ISO1600, it'd be plenty of noise but I don't see any on your picture. Any noise reduction?


Mikhail,

If you're seeing lots of noise in your images, regardless of the ISO setting, then that's telling me that you're exposure hasn't been nailed. Play with your exposure settings a little more and see if it makes any difference.

Kerry, dontcha just love what that lens lets you get away with?
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Postby KerryPierce on Thu May 26, 2005 11:27 pm

Thanks for the kind comments, guys. :D

This fellow was in the National Zoo in Washington D.C. He'd been fighting with the other wolves in the pack and, of course, losing.

The high ISO was due to the lighting, which sucked. Many of the exhibits at that zoo were in deep shade. I lost a ton of photos due to motion blur because of that. It's been a long time since I edited this photo, so I don't recall the specifics. I just looked at the original and it doesn't look like I used a noise reduction util on the image. Dunno for sure, but I think that the higher you can keep your SS, the less noise you will see.

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Postby mic on Fri May 27, 2005 12:00 am

Kerry, that Wolf has been stuffed :lol: :lol:

Nice pic.

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Postby KerryPierce on Fri May 27, 2005 8:26 am

mic wrote:Kerry, that Wolf has been stuffed :lol: :lol:


Thanks, Mic. :D Yes indeed, that fellow had a very hard time of it. I had a nice chat with this SYT who was one of the wolf caretakers. She was quite upset with the turn of events and stated that she thought they'd gotten him separated from the rest of the pack just in time to save his life.

I have a number of rather dramatic, bloody, photos of him that I haven't put on line. I do have some others that are much less disturbing that I'll put up later.
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Postby mudder on Fri May 27, 2005 7:55 pm

Wild nature can be a very hard and cruel environment, the expression and mood of the image says it all...
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Postby KerryPierce on Fri May 27, 2005 11:27 pm

Thanks for the comment, Andrew. :D
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