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cameraCanon EOS 5D Mark III

settings Aperture f/4 ISO 400 Shutter 1/100 Focal Length 600/1 

upload_dateFeb, 2016

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3 Comments |
Nitka
 
Nitka February 21, 2016
Beautiful capture!..:-)
TanyaJTimmons1967
 
TanyaJTimmons1967 October 01, 2016
I love it! Nice capture!
Robjrico2
 
Robjrico2 June 26, 2018
Beautiful shot!

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Behind The Lens

Location

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Wildlife Park in Jersey, they do some great work, this is one of their Gorillas

Time

Well it was lunchtime for the Gorillas!

Lighting

It was an overcast day, but actually quite nice for February, made it pretty easy to avoid shadows.

Equipment

A canon 5d mark iii with canon 600mm f4 is ii, which is nearly alway on a manfrotto cf monopod to keep it light (well everything is relative).

Inspiration

I liked the composition and the green of the food just added something, like using the long lens to get this sort of portrait type shot.

Editing

It really didn't need a lot, crop and sharpen would have been it, but it didn't need much of either.

In my camera bag

No such thing as normal, it depends what I'm looking to photograph and how much I want to carry. As well as the kit I used for the picture I had a macro lens, extension tubes, ring flash, 1.4x and 2x teleconverters in the bag.

Feedback

You just need to be in the right place at the right time, when you go somewhere like this check when things are going on and make sure you get there for feeding etc animal will be much more active.

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