Longleat Safari Park

[Rednut05]

And now carrying on from the latest in Zoo/ Safari Park pictures, Teronga Zoo. I have just come back from Longleat Safari Park...

A select few.
















Now I have gone through and deleted a lot of the pictures due to taking a few burst snaps of a subject and keeping the best only. Deleting ones due to motion blurring them.

But mostly due to many being soft as, well a soft thing.

The lens being the Canon 70-300 IS. It was an overcast day as the weathers been crap lately but I'm not overly happy. Taking pictures only for me it doesn't matter so much but still I'd like crisper images.

So what am I doing wrong.? I hope it's me not the lens as my moneys going else where at the moment...

David

[DC53]

Awwww, those monkeys are sooo cute!

Nice pic's also!

[V6GTO]

Rednut...it's dull, so shutter speed comes down and hand held shots get softer. It's just a fact of life. Crank up the Iso, use a support, use a flash or hold the camera steadier if you want the problem to go away. Of course each of those methods have thier own pitfalls, increased noise, tired arms, black backgrounds and under exposure, or, re holding the camera steadier, how? A mono-pod is my first weapon of choice on dull days.

HTH.

Martin.

[Rednut05]

V6GTO said:

Rednut...it's dull, so shutter speed comes down and hand held shots get softer. It's just a fact of life. Crank up the Iso, use a support, use a flash or hold the camera steadier if you want the problem to go away. Of course each of those methods have thier own pitfalls, increased noise, tired arms, black backgrounds and under exposure, or, re holding the camera steadier, how? A mono-pod is my first weapon of choice on dull days.

HTH.

Martin.

Cheers for the reply Martin.

I posted a thread a while ago about getting a mono pod for use at Le Mans.

Problem with Longleat is that you are mostly in a car. Rested the camera a good few times on the window, but as sitting in the back, it didn't go down all the way.

The histogram said that they pictures were coming out mid graph so that seemed okay.

The weather was cack but I'll try upping the ISO next time.

I didn't want to use the flash as much because I wasn't sure how much animals liked a blinding flash meters from their face when I was peering out an open window, which was also a reason why I tried to keep myself less obvious.

So ISO. Bingo.

Cheers Martin.



David

[V6GTO]

If you are going the ISO route it might be worth downloading one of the free noise reduction programmes. I use Neat Image but have heard Noise Ninja is good too.

Martin.