Scattered Thoughts . . .

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...

Kenzie was carrying one of my cameras while we were at the Cincinnati Zoo so she captured a few nice photos.   The camera she had at the zoo was the same camera that she often uses while visiting our house so she is familiar with this camera.  Lukey had a different camera that he sometimes uses to photograph Kenzie playing soccer or figure skating.   While reviewing Kenzie's photos, I noticed that she rarely used the zoom function of the lens I had mounted on her camera.  I think this was because she usually uses a fixed prime lens with no zoom when she uses this camera at our house so I think she kept forgetting that this lens was a zoom lens.  I noticed the same with some of Lukey's photos.  I think it took both of them a little while to get used to having that zoom available. She started the day with a selfie...  Hmmm...  now that I'm looking more closely at this photo, I think maybe I offered to use her camera to capture a photo of h...