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Published: 2011-06-01 22:07:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 3429; Favourites: 213; Downloads: 276
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This is Motomo, the most recent adult to join the UK Wolf Conservation Trust. His breed is "northwestern wolf" (Canis lupus occidentalis, aka Mackenzie Valley Wolf).You may use this as stock, but please attribute me as the original photographer.
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Matt, this is how I drew itΒ shonechacko.deviantart.com/artβ¦
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I've used this beautifu photo for practice~: [link]
It turned out terrible. I think I need to apologize to Motomo. >__<
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You're way too harsh on yourself - I think you did a great job 
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You think so? I still think my wolves look very weird. TuT But thank you very much for the compliment.
Thank you~, drawing the eye was the best part for me right after the nose. I love wolf eyes.
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great subject, nice contrast and detail, with blurred backround of nice contrasting color framing subject nicely.
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Opp! Looks like one of our admins deleted this one again... sorry about the confusion XD I've re added it. It's such a great piece OoO
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Oops. Removing this from ResourceZoo since it's not in the "stock" category, my apologies.
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In the description I did say it may be used as stock
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Ah, alright, sorry again! How embarrassing
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Great picture! I hope you like what I've done with it! [link]
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Cool
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Oh! xD Sorry! +runs to fix it+
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aww i've been there! went on awolf walk with the two eurpoean wolves and duma, shame one of the E wolfies passed away
great place, i loved it but my camera couldn't get any pics of the others because of that fence DX any tips??
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I've never got to walk with the european wolves - it is sad that one of them passed away - they've lost quite a few over the past couple of years 
They have a high viewing platform by one of the enclosures which is open on the Open Days (assuming it's not raining really hard and making the steps slippery!), so if you're lucky it's possible to get nice clean shots of whatever wolves they have in there on the day. You need a good zoom lens for it though!
Also on the open days they sometimes have an enclosure where they let you inside the outer fence and have some portions of the fence where you can poke a lens through.
Having said all that, if the wolf isn't too near the fence, you can get near the fence, your camera has a decent zoom and you can make sure the camera leaves the aperture as wide as possible (for a relatively shallow depth of field) then it's possible to get shots through the fence where the fence just shows up as slight distortion lines. In fact I'm not sure if you could tell, but this photo was taken through the fence 
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aw
ooh gonna have to go on a open day then
really? wow i see what you mean, a good shot!
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My kit is all Nikon, so I know Nikon best! I had a quick google for information on the G2 and it's a four-thirds sensor which gives a crop factor of about 2. From looking around I think the ideal zoom lens for your camera would be the "Panasonic Lumix G Vario 45-200mm MEGA F4.0-5.6 O.I.S" lens (or rather, if I had your camera that's the one I'd look at). Its zoom range starts just after your current lens stops, so they would make a good set of lenses to have. Looks like amazon have it for about Β£260.
On your camera the long end on that lens of 200mm would give shots that look similar in terms of zoom to my shots of Motomo - the depth of field might be a little greater though so if you did shoot through a fence it might be a little more noticeable than on my camera/lens combination. That lens has optical image stabilisation which would help avoid camera shake blurring the images when zoomed. Panasonic also do a 100mm-300mm lens which would zoom in even further, but that costs double the amount and unless you're going to do a lot of distant photography would be a bit of a waste!
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great! thanks for taking the time to help me!!
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This is a great photo! Very nice of you to allow its use as stock. Thank you! It's very helpful. I've been referencing it for a sculpture I'm working on; I'll send you the link when it's finished. ^^
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Excellent - I look forward to seeing it! There should be a few more shots of Motomo in my gallery from different angles from the same day if that's of any help
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I've got the WIP posted~ [link] Ooh, awesome! I bet they will be; he has similar features to the character I'm sculpting, especially in profile. Thanks again ^^
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The WIP is looking good
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Thanks
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This is an awesome shot - he has such a nice "wolfish smile"!
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Motomo is maybe the nicest wolf at the UK wolf conservation, great shot!
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He is giving Torak a run for his money in the charisma stakes (shame it's not possible to have Motomo on a wolf walk!).
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I think Motomo is nicer, he's not as shy!
Yes that is a shame, becuse I'm planning to go on a wolf walf soon (when I save up enough XD)
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Well he was a bit more shy when Mai was taken out to have her cubs, but now she's back he seemed pretty content to stare at people on the open day recently
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I was there at the open day, but the weather was pretty bad so I didn't get any good pictures of him 
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I found another one that came out ok 
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Yes it did, I came in the afternoon and got soaked! Just asking- how do you manage to not get the fence of the enclosure in your pictures? Because its in the way of all of my pictures
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Well in the shot above the fence was actually in the way, but I had my long lens on at full zoom (300mm) with the aperture forced at the widest (f5.6 - it's not a fast lens) so the depth of field was shallow enough, the fence near enough and the focal point far enough away that I got away with it
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Ok thanks, Ill try that next time
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You weren't kidding about the weather being bad then! I'm fortunate enough not to live too far away, and didn't have anything else planned on the Monday, so I looked at the weather report in the morning and picked when I thought I might not get drowned
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Yes, and it just happened to be on a day that I was taking photos!
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