KC Zoo
 

Went a couple of weekends ago with a KC Meetup Group. Unfortunately, it was a gorgeous sunny day! <img src="http://thephotoforum.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_sunny.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Sun" smilieid="68" class="inlineimg" /> But I did manage to get a few OK shots... my first &quot;zoo shoot&quot;...</p>
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<p>1. Meerkat</p>
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<p>2. White Handed Gibbon. This one was tough, as they were all behind a thick plate of glass/plexi. I got rid of the haze, but the green hue just won't go away no matter what I try with color balancing. My GIMP/PP skills are pretty basic, though, so any <font color="Blue">suggestions </font>here are appreciated.</p>
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<p>3. Gorilla - a few of us tried everything we could do to avoid the bright spots on his fur, but it was hopeless. Any fixing I could do in PP only made the shadows black (<font color="Blue">Definitely open to help here</font> - I have the original pic in RAW). Grr. Nevertheless, he posed for us for about 10 minutes.</p>
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<p>4. Leopard - again, with the shadows. The lighting could have been rather pretty, but the difference between the light &amp; dark spots was just too drastic for me to be able to balance the photo well.</p>
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<p>5. aaaaaand back to the meerkats</p>
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