Ugly Stuff at the Zoo

[BlueHeronTrail]

Got this shot at the Fort Worth Zoo today. I hate the zoo with a passion, but my wife likes it, so I decided to be nice to her for a change. Paid off with some pretty fun shots, I have to admit.I cannot remember for the life of me what kind of big ugly lizards these were, but I liked the "pose". I haven't decided what to call this. I'm considering "Who's Gonna Blink?". Thoughts?

[BlueHeronTrail]

One more...

[bburton]

Awesome close up, Shawn. :D :D

[robar]

really like the pelican. just enough color for a great shot.

[Bill Huber]

I will have to go with pelican shot, very nice.
As was said there is just enough color to make it a very neat shot.

Now the first one... well they are not one of my favorites...

I think this is the same one

[BlueHeronTrail]

Originally Posted by Bill Huber

I will have to go with pelican shot, very nice.
As was said there is just enough color to make it a very neat shot.

Now the first one... well they are not one of my favorites...

Bill, exactly why I entitled that first post "Ugly...". :)

As for your comment on color, do I take it that you are generally in favor of less saturated shots? (Maybe I misunderstood, but that's what I got from that.) I have been wondering, in deciding how best to adjust my D70's color settings, whether it is better to set the camera for higher saturation and lower it, if necessary, in post or vice versa. Right now I have the custom settings set for Adobe RGB 1998, boosted saturation, and contrast, etc. on automatic/standard. I wonder whether it would be better to keep it on Adobe (or change back to sRGB, for that matter) and set all the other settings to standard/auto. Thoughts?

BTW, I realize that it's probably optimum to shoot raw, esp. as fast as the D70 is. However, until I decide to fork over the cash for Elements 3, Nikon's raw converter, or some other option, I'll be shooting JPEG Fine.

Here's another one from the zoo outing. The strange thing about this one is that there was a black chain-link fence between us and the eagle. My wife saw it and called my attention to it. I figured the shots would be useless. However, even in the original hi-res, I cannot see the fence! Weird.

[Bill Huber]

Originally Posted by BlueHeronTrail

As for your comment on color, do I take it that you are generally in favor of less saturated shots? (Maybe I misunderstood, but that's what I got from that.) I have been wondering, in deciding how best to adjust my D70's color settings, whether it is better to set the camera for higher saturation and lower it, if necessary, in post or vice versa. Right now I have the custom settings set for Adobe RGB 1998, boosted saturation, and contrast, etc. on automatic/standard. I wonder whether it would be better to keep it on Adobe (or change back to sRGB, for that matter) and set all the other settings to standard/auto. Thoughts?

BTW, I realize that it's probably optimum to shoot raw, esp. as fast as the D70 is. However, until I decide to fork over the cash for Elements 3, Nikon's raw converter, or some other option, I'll be shooting JPEG Fine.

Here's another one from the zoo outing. The strange thing about this one is that there was a black chain-link fence between us and the eagle. My wife saw it and called my attention to it. I figured the shots would be useless. However, even in the original hi-res, I cannot see the fence! Weird.

With that shot I don't think you could have set the camera any better, the color is there but it is very light. You have to remember there was not a lot of color there to shot.

Now setting the color in the camera is something very personal, you are the only one that knows what you like. For me I like bright color, but not over saturated color. Some people like high saturation all around.
I have an E1 and have it set to to factory default on the color, that is one of the things that I like about the Olympus cameras.

The one thing about in camera setting is not to change to much at one time. I started out by changing one thing and then taking a bunch of shots until I saw what I wanted, then went on to the next item.

I had a friend that had gone in and I think change everything he could change in his camera and was not happy with his pictures. I had him set everything back to factory and start over one thing at a time, he is happy now.