We had a wonderful day at the Melbourne Zoo on Friday. It must have been one of the busiest days of the year, I reckon. It was like being at a theme park, there were so many people. The queue to see Mali the new baby elephant was kilometres long. So we went to the butterfly house instead.
Gorilla
Pigmy Hippopotamus
Scary Mandril
Spider Monkey kicking back
Another monkey thing that has teeth that reminded me of Otto’s teeth
Grumpy monkeys
Skritch from the Ice Age movies
Ollie and Sarah walking up to see the Baby Elephant
An Otter. Not an Otto.
Like a Tiger. Grrrrr.
A colourful chook bird thing
The butterfly hot house is probably still my favourite enclosure
You can see this butterfly turning its head
Hefalumps
I love Pelicans! I never realised that they, like chooks, also turn their heads backwards and tuck their beaks in nicely to have a nap.
Oo, the Urang-utans were absolutely beautifully stunning
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One of the NICA circus students asked me if I could do a portrait shoot for him. No worries.
After thinking about this a bit, I thought that I would just keep it simple and quick—my time is rather scarce right now. So I found a wall in the shade, put the shutter onto max sync. Or 1/200 actually, because my 50D has more reliability with this than 1/250th. Dialled the aperture to 7.1 for a nice crisp image. Started the ISO at 400, and wound it down to 200 to be a couple of stops (I can’t remember if it was 1 or 2) below ambient.
Set the bare 430EX II to 1/16 power and up against the wall to camera right, just out of shot. And put the other 430EX II on e-TTL firing into a shoot-through umbrella to camera left on the first image, and right for the second.
I was going for a simple relatively safe set up, low post production shot. These are my picks from the 15 minute shoot. Actually, the longest part of this shoot was running into the building to find a sand bag so that the umbrella light stand would stop falling over in the breeze.
