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Sunday, November 1, 2009

More Than Animals

Wow. Here it is, November 1st. The card that is in my camera has pictures on it from April that I haven't imported. Summer is full of a lot of things. Heat. Rain. Vacations. Sports. My summer was full of work, and not at all full of photography.

We went to Tulsa for a quick day trip over Labor Day weekend. Hadley has a pretty short attention span for the zoo. Also, to get really decent shots of wildlife, you kinda need a 300mm or 400mm 4.0 lens with a teleconverter. A monopod is also helpful (I decided to leave mine in the truck). Fortunately, many zoos are more than animals. This was taken in a little lillypad somewhere along the way.

EXIF:

Nikon D80
18-135m lens at 135mm
ISO 400
1/800 sec. at f5.6

Black and white conversion, exposure tweaking, split toning and gratuitous vignetting in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1.