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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 728731" data-attributes="member: 46690"><p>To my surprise I discovered recently that there's a wolf preserve not too far from my house, so this past Sunday I stuck my 100-300mm on the D5500 and took a ride over.</p><p></p><p>The wolves were beautiful to look at, but because this was an "educational tour" and not one of their "photography tours", it was not really conducive to picture taking. For one thing each wolf area was surrounded by TWO chain link fences, and it was tough (for me, anyway) not having every damn shot ruined by diagonal bars of metal crossing the scene. Plus the wolves were either too far away for my 300mm lens to grab, they were obscured by all the ground brush, or they were right up against the fence where the metal latticework covered much of their body. I took just over 300 pictures, and less than ten are keepers. And they're only keepers because I managed to somehow wedge my lens between the links of the fence and grab an unobstructed shot for them, not because they are good pictures <em>per se</em>. They're more like glorified snapshots. But it was all I could do.</p><p></p><p>They also had an enclosure with a pair of really cute, fluffy foxes, and another with a lynx and a bobcat. But again, that damn fence. And a lot of people pushing up against it - I couldn't frame a shot for being wedged in between so many others.</p><p></p><p>They do, as I mentioned, offer photography tours. But they cost THREE HUNDRED FREAKIN' DOLLARS for two hours. For that money they let you walk between the two fences of the enclosure, and there are also windows where you can stick your lens through for a fence-free shot. Plus the wolves are pretty tame and come when called, so you're guaranteed to get good closeups and action shots of them jumping for Liv-a-Snaps. But did I mention - IT'S THREE HUNDRED FREAKIN' DOLLARS! That's a third of the D500 I want to buy! Jeez. (The educational tour was only $16, btw.)</p><p></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]333370[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]333371[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]333372[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>. </p><p></p><p>This is a small garden statue right at the entrance. I purposely under exposed it to make seem more ominous:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]333373[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This was my test shot, to see what it looked like with normal exposure under bright sunshine:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]333374[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 728731, member: 46690"] To my surprise I discovered recently that there's a wolf preserve not too far from my house, so this past Sunday I stuck my 100-300mm on the D5500 and took a ride over. The wolves were beautiful to look at, but because this was an "educational tour" and not one of their "photography tours", it was not really conducive to picture taking. For one thing each wolf area was surrounded by TWO chain link fences, and it was tough (for me, anyway) not having every damn shot ruined by diagonal bars of metal crossing the scene. Plus the wolves were either too far away for my 300mm lens to grab, they were obscured by all the ground brush, or they were right up against the fence where the metal latticework covered much of their body. I took just over 300 pictures, and less than ten are keepers. And they're only keepers because I managed to somehow wedge my lens between the links of the fence and grab an unobstructed shot for them, not because they are good pictures [I]per se[/I]. They're more like glorified snapshots. But it was all I could do. They also had an enclosure with a pair of really cute, fluffy foxes, and another with a lynx and a bobcat. But again, that damn fence. And a lot of people pushing up against it - I couldn't frame a shot for being wedged in between so many others. They do, as I mentioned, offer photography tours. But they cost THREE HUNDRED FREAKIN' DOLLARS for two hours. For that money they let you walk between the two fences of the enclosure, and there are also windows where you can stick your lens through for a fence-free shot. Plus the wolves are pretty tame and come when called, so you're guaranteed to get good closeups and action shots of them jumping for Liv-a-Snaps. But did I mention - IT'S THREE HUNDRED FREAKIN' DOLLARS! That's a third of the D500 I want to buy! Jeez. (The educational tour was only $16, btw.) . [ATTACH=CONFIG]333370._xfImport[/ATTACH] . [ATTACH=CONFIG]333371._xfImport[/ATTACH] . [ATTACH=CONFIG]333372._xfImport[/ATTACH] . This is a small garden statue right at the entrance. I purposely under exposed it to make seem more ominous: [ATTACH=CONFIG]333373._xfImport[/ATTACH] This was my test shot, to see what it looked like with normal exposure under bright sunshine: [ATTACH=CONFIG]333374._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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