Lukey's Zoo Photos

For this trip, Lukey was using one of my smaller Panasonic cameras. At the zoo, however, he had a fairly long lens mounted on it so he could zoom in on the animals. Actually, this "medium-long" lens was a little smaller than the lens that Kenzie was using but his camera was probably a hair larger than the camera Kenzie used. As I mentioned in the previous blog entry with Kenzie's zoo photos, I think both Lukey and Kenzie had to get used to having that zoom available.

I'm noticing that Kenzie seems to gravitate toward seeing and capturing the whole scene whereas Lukey seems to like picking a subject and zooming in on it. Neither is necessarily better than the other. It is simply a difference in photographic style and something I noticed while reviewing their photos from this trip.

You'd think a zoo would be an easy place for capturing photos of animals but, in reality, zoos can be difficult for photography. The backgrounds are often distractingly busy so, as a photographer, you need to try to find an angle that minimizes these distractions and that is extremely difficult to do and sometimes impossible to do. Another problem is that animals are often unwilling models so you don't get the best angle of them. They don't pose for you!

Even considering these difficulties, Lukey did well!