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Published: 2012-04-16 12:32:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 496; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 23
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Description You can't imagine how difficult it can be with a normal telephoto lens with this guy sitting in front of glass especially when children run in your shot because you have to stay 1.5m away from the cage to be able to get a focus. Additionally the air conditions there caused my lens to fog a few seconds after cleaning it.

Photo taken at the zoo of cologne.

Comments as well as critiques are much appreciated!

Camera: Canon EOS 400D (with hack)
Lens: Canon EF 75-300 f/4-5.6 III


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Comments: 17

Guard-of-the-Citadel [2013-01-25 00:19:26 +0000 UTC]

Uh....I can imagine how difficult that can be...and frustrating!!!! But let me assure you....it all paid off!!!! This shot is exceptional! Truly marvelous!

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Edhelin [2013-01-24 13:11:02 +0000 UTC]

beautiful lizard

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Chikrata [2012-05-22 06:52:40 +0000 UTC]

Ooo. I like this. The colourful bokeh really works here, and it's blown off really nicely. I'm amazed you got it that nice at F5.6!
Great portrait composition too

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darkSoul4Life In reply to Chikrata [2012-05-22 14:18:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much Well the lens produces good images as long as your subject is closer than 7m and farther away than 1.5m even at open aperture. I don't know how you could get such a photo with closed aperture, there's almost not enough light to get it shake free at f/5.6.

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Chikrata In reply to darkSoul4Life [2012-06-01 23:20:15 +0000 UTC]

Yeah... that's one of the reasons I went for an F4 lens. You get double the shutter speed of an F5.6...

It worked though. That depth of field is really nice

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Nikki-vdp [2012-04-25 17:55:39 +0000 UTC]

Love how the animal's colours return in the background colour palette.

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darkSoul4Life In reply to Nikki-vdp [2012-05-08 14:20:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much
Too bad it's quite noisy after strong noise reduction. I know now why the 400D normally hasn't a ISO 3200 setting..

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Sarahharas07 [2012-04-18 10:52:43 +0000 UTC]

great !

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darkSoul4Life In reply to Sarahharas07 [2012-04-18 11:01:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much
It wasn't easy with such air conditions..

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Sarahharas07 In reply to darkSoul4Life [2012-04-18 13:13:20 +0000 UTC]

i understand but the shot is brilliant

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blanket86 [2012-04-16 16:13:15 +0000 UTC]

Amazing shot!

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darkSoul4Life In reply to blanket86 [2012-04-16 16:18:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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SilverVulpine [2012-04-16 12:51:03 +0000 UTC]

Very nice!

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darkSoul4Life In reply to SilverVulpine [2012-04-16 13:52:05 +0000 UTC]

Many thanks

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SilverVulpine In reply to darkSoul4Life [2012-04-17 03:40:11 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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michelle-hen [2012-04-16 12:33:32 +0000 UTC]

That's just awesome (:

XxX Michelle

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darkSoul4Life In reply to michelle-hen [2012-04-16 12:34:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, I'm glad you like it

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