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Published: 2006-03-09 19:27:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 986; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 44
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Afterwork: Border, sharpened, cropped.Amur Tiger again of course, I've gotten to really enjoy these trips to the zoo in bad weather. They seem so much more active than they are when the park is crowded with visitors and warm in the summer. There was nobody around, 'cept for me and him. Well he was laying on the flank of another, but I couldn't see her face. Yes, I've giving them genders. I don't know if I'm right, but he seemed male. Yep.
`lns
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Yeah. I did a whole Flash project last semester based on tigers and that very fact.
`lns
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Dont know much about fotography, but seems like a nice shot.
Havent you fotographed this one earlier? Pardon my ignorance,but is 'Amur' his name or is it some sub species or something?
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No, it's a species of tiger. And yes I've photographed him often recently. Normally the tigers tend to stick to the corners where they can hide from the crowds at the zoo. But, with the bad weather there's been hardly any people when I've visited. So I've taken tons of shots, rather a glutton I suppose, for I rarely get to see him out in the open.
`lns
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wow this picture is so good it feels like you are right next to him! sure, he's a male, they're lazy like that
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Yes they are! LOL
`lns
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Such a beautiful photo!! 
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LOL. I'm biased, I think girls just look more alert.
`lns
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This is awesome, it's very reminiscent of this picture taken by a National Geographic photographer that came to our school to share his story about Asiatic lions...
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Thank you very much. I've got two more tiger pictures I'm posting you'll probably like too.
`lns
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Thank you! I've seen some of yours, and that's a compliment.
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you'rw welcome, and thanks
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You're really improving your photographic skills. This shot is amazing.
He is looking straight in the camera: you've catch the perfect moment.
And the crop is fantastic. What else? Oh... yes... 
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Thank you Beast man! I'll be back at that cage, searching for a new image.
`lns
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Your pictures are just....getting more and more gorgeous each time you upload them. I keep thinking if they can get any better, but you prove me wrong.
Great strategy with going in bad weather, although you can't tell by the photograph -- I love how it has such a calm, relaxed atmosphere, not to mention that beautiful cat himself.
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Thank you darlin. I haven't been here much this week, but I wanted to share this one specifically. I was rather happy with myself for getting him all to myself for the time it took to adjust my camera back and forth.
`lns
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You're welcome. Hah, you're not alone, don't worry. 
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Just wait for the next two...
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Great pose but I'm going to go technical on you ... The twig is in focus but what we want is his eyes in focus. So you have used f5.6, cams focused on the foreground and teh tiges face has dropped into the out of focus zone.. we need about F8 to over come that.OR
I set the camera to focus using the centre red spot only.(handbook) Take a bead on his eye and hold down the shutter to lock the focus and then move the cam to reframe the shot and Fire. Make sense? F 5.6 woud probably be OK in this instance.
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Get all the technical details you want Seeker...err Give. I stood there, and the light wasn't the best. So I was switiching apetures and speeds. I agree the twig is the focus point. Which, yes I agree again. I can frame the shot with the pushing the shutter half and recompose. Though of them all that day, this one seemed the best. I'll get better with these comments though, thank you.
`lns
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The trick is not to be beguiled ( good word) by the shot to the point where you forget to concentrate on the hard work of fotography.... and that puss cat had a seductive look in his eye!
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Beguiled! Never! Yeah, okay so I have these passions...
`lns
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now go and sweet talk your other DA friends... you are spening far too much time on me!
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LOL.
I've been here all day, errr...yesterday. Fuck I don't remember now!
`lns
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he is absolutly beautiful 
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Yeah! With his jaw all opened!
`lns
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Lazy ass tiger.... get up and kill something. nahh he looks tired from killing stuff earlier.
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I remember being a the circus once, and staring at the open mouth of the lion.... I don't know why I've remembered that now. I've seen worse on Discovery since.
`lns
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The only lion's I've ever seen is at the zoo and they were sleeping and not very exciting.
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I'll bet it was warm...?
`lns
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yeah but so they should give them speed or something, that'd make them exciting as hell.
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LOL
Yeah, then animal rights activists would be popping cages open right and left, and we'd have high tigers racing around the city. Which in and of itself could be funny.
`lns
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Awesome... I might get a job at the zoo.
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I should have yearsssssss ago.
`lns
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I'm sure you did..... but yearsssssss ago the animals were still roaming the wilderness years ago you might have been able to but yearsssssss that's goin to far back.
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They were here first.
`lns
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I just want to run my fingers over the fur. At least once.
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Yeah, I had to move my feet to get him to open them. He was being all sunbathing.
`lns
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Heheh, he looks so happy and peaceful and yet lazily alert at the same time. Beautiful photo, too, I think.
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Thank you darlin. I stood there and took pictures for about a halfhour. All alone.
`lns
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I've gone back! More pictures, the rain is great for zoo!
`lns
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Reminds me of certain other big cats, laying around all lazy and nestled in together.
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Mmh.
I like your idea about Flare and Evermoore. I'm working on something with them. If I can figure out the technique.
`lns
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