Photography Quick Tips, Shooting through Wire Fences

Painted Hunting Dog
taken through a wire fence

Just a few tips on shooting through wire fences at Zoo's and Wildlife Parks with a DSLR.

1. I would recommend a 300mm lens and up but this all depends on how close you can get to the fence, most places have a barrier stopping you from getting too close.

2. On full zoom try and get as close to the fence as possible, try and avoid any part of the fence that has direct sunlight on it because this will increase the chance of it showing up in your shots, so pick a spot that's in shade.

3.Manual focus on static subjects if your auto focus is picking up the wire, on moving subjects I use AI servo (continuous) focusing on my Canon 7D.

 

 



On this Jaguar shot that was taken through wire fencing moving towards me i was holding my camera in the portrait position, i chose a focal point closest to the eyes and put my auto focus on AI Servo to keep the Cat in focus.
                                                                                               Hope this helps.
Thanks for looking.

 





September Photo Highlights

First Up Twycross,no need for a big lens here,

i use a 70-200mm and leave the bigger 100-400 at home.

Chimpanzee

Southern Lapwing

Bengalese Finch

Dusky Langur

Silvery Marmoset

and a short visit to my local The Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Lioness

Kafue Lechwe

Amur Tiger

October will be time to start shooting from the shed again,

more and more bird starting to arrive at the feeders.

Thanks for looking

Twycross Zoo 19/5/13

Just had a few hours at Twycross Zoo.

Went to see the new enclosure for the Amur Leopards,all they have done is put the Chimps in one of the Gorilla houses and moved the Leopards to the old Chimp enclosure.

Still needs money investing into updating some of the enclosures (IMO).

That said it was a nice hot sunny day for once.

The highlight was the baby Bonobo Lopori,very active and loved coming close to the glass to see everyone.

Only took 12 pics and decided to keep just 6 of those so not a good day picture wise,but enjoyed it all the same.

This is Baby Bononbo Lopori

 Lowes Guenon

 Red Faced Spider Monkey 

And a Ringtail Lemur.

They now have a walk through Lemur enclosure.

Hope you liked the shots and thanks for looking.

Twycross Zoo

Visited this Zoo 4 or 5 times,got some nice shots nearly everytime i go.Excellent if you like primates/monkeys as there are loads of them,found it a little hard to get decent shots of a lot of them due to mesh enclosures.Would recommend this Zoo to any one.
All shots taken by me at Twycross Zoo.

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Chester Zoo

This place is an all day visit,loads to see and before you know it,it's closing time.
Been 2 to 3 times now and enjoyed every minute.
All pics by me.