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Name: Snow LeopardScientific Name: Uncia uncia
Location: Found primarily in the Himalayan Mountains, from Myanmar moving west through China, Nepal, India, Pakistan and back east through Kazakstan, Mongolia and the Gobi Desert.
This is one of two snow leopards that live in the Toronto Zoo. Snow Leopards are an endangered species, to find out more you can look here: [link]
Taken through glass
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Wow, this is really amazing! How are you able to get animals to pose like that? I have some pretty good pictures of my cats, but they don't look all THAT porfessional. I mean, I'm still getting used to my new camera and I know the basics, but I'm just having a LOT of trouble with getting the animals to be still and so I can get a clean, good picture. Any advice??
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Thanks. Honestly, I got pretty lucky with this shot. It was taken at the zoo, and the snow leopard was just pacing back and forth in front of the glass. I waited a while and snapped a few shots when he stood still.
I find that the key to taking good photos of animals is patience. Sometimes you just gotta wait around for them to get comfortable. Choose a place that has good natural lighting; most animals don't like flash. I also take a lot of photos, not all of them are great, but if you take a lot of photos, you're bound to get some good clean photos.
Also, most of the photos I've uploaded on to deviantArt have been edited on Photoshop CS5. I use it clean up the photos a bit (fix dull colours, sharpen slightly blurry photos, cropping). A lot of what I learned about editing, I learned off tutorials from deviantArt.
Anyhow, I hope that helps a bit. Good luck with your animal photography.
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Thank you! This really helps! I'll try that!
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That's a big kitty
Thanks
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