{"id":1672,"date":"2022-10-07T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/zoo-in-the-fall\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:20:02","slug":"zoo-in-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/zoo-in-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoo in the Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

When photographing animals, one of the best ways to get close and personal is to visit a zoo. And we’re lucky here in Ontario to have the fantastic Toronto Zoo. Which is more than just a zoo; it also acts as a leader in conservation both in Canada and around the World. This past weekend Heather and I took our son to the Toronto Zoo for the first time, and while he enjoyed just being at the zoo and sleeping, I decided to take out a lens I haven’t taken out since 2019. The Tamron 100-300mm is one that isn’t the best lens in my kit, but it gives me the longest reach. And with this trip’s amazing weather, I didn’t have to worry about cracking ISO.<\/p>\n

\"Dozey\"<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Roo\"<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Silent\"<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Droopy\"<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Are<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Bear\"<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Troop\"<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Zebra<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Rino\"<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Hidden<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"When<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Another<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"The<\/a>
Nikon D750 – Tamron AF Tele-Macro 100-300mm 1:5-6.3<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I’m happy with these results; while the lens is far from perfect and didn’t work 100% with my D750, after the first few shots, I ended up going into manual metering mode and had to over-expose the shots to get decent exposure out of the camera, then adjusted in Lightroom to fine-tune the exposure. This was the third trip to the Zoo with Heather, and for the third time, we saw a new baby animal, in this case, a baby Sumatran orangutan. The previous two times, we’ve seen a baby tiger<\/a> and baby pandas. If you want to see all the images, I captured on this trip, head over to Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When photographing animals, one of the best ways to get close and personal is to visit a zoo. And we’re lucky here in Ontario to have the fantastic Toronto Zoo. Which is more than just a zoo; it also acts as a leader in conservation both in Canada and around the World. This past weekend Heather and I took our son to the Toronto Zoo for the first time, and while he enjoyed just being at the zoo and sleeping, I decided to take out a lens I haven’t taken out since 2019. The Tamron 100-300mm is one that isn’t the best lens in myRead More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}