Zoo

On March 2, 2010, the two photography classes at Mercy took a field trip down to the San Francisco Zoo for our animal chapter. We spent a couple of hours taking pictures of all the different animals at the zoo. The zoo showcased many different animals ranging from monkeys, tigers, giraffes, and birds. This was a great opportunity to practice our animal photography skills. These pictures were taken on shutter priority mode, on a 1/200s shutter speed and an 800 ISO.

This is my environmental portrait picture of a giraffe ni its territory. This was taken with a f/9 f-stop. I really liked this picture because it captures a lot of the background and shows how tall giraffe is.

On the right is a picture of a silver-back gorilla standing on a rock. This is one of my favorite pictures because the gorilla gives off a sad feel to the picture with its eyes and body language. I shot this picture on f/5.3.

On the left is my pop art image of a giraffe. I made the picture so that the print looks like small tiles put together. I thought it was interesting how even though the spots distorted the image a little bit, viewers could still identify what the image is. f/6.3 was the f-stop for this picture.

On the right, is my first choice picture of two kangaroos playing around. I liked this picture because it was one of the few action shots of animals that I had. The kangaroos were playful. This was taken with a f/13 f-stop.

This is my second choice picture of a tiger walking around in his environment. I liked this picture because the tiger was staring out and sort of caught eye with the camera being able to hold a scary glare. I also liked this picture because viewers can see the fur of the tiger very well. This was shot with a f/6.3 f-stop