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I think a few of us like to do them here, so I thought I'd start a thread. I am currently going through and editing a lot so thought I'd post some of my favourites.

This is one I took a while ago at Taronga, a Baboon. I find it hard to get good photos of them as they are a rather 'ugly' monnkey so it's a challenge to get good ones of them. I might get more now that Melbourne has finally updated their dreadful enclosure.

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This is a baby chimp with his mum. I got loads from this session and have up to 50 images still worth going through! Melbourne doesn't have chimps so I tried to get tons from my sydney trip.

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My first image of a Ring Tailed Lemur. Their enclosures aren't great at Melbourne so hard to get any close ups, and this one is from Taronga.

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Puma from Melbourne Zoo. I think they only have one left now.

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Lioness

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Gorilla baby & Mum

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I don't mind sharing tips, I just find it hard because it really depends on the image. I guess for the chimp one as an example, I THINK I used a preset in Lightroom as a starting point (400), then added a layer in photoshop (solid black) and brought back the image slowly using the history brush.

The Lioness, I converted to B&W and played with the levels, and also put an overlay of a texture on it in photoshop.

So yep, just depends. I ditch any photo where it's an obvious zoo shot that I can't edit (like a fence in the way) etc, and any photo where the animal looks awkward (tongue half out or something, heh).

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I love the baby chimp and gorilla ones the most. I always remember that photo you posted of the mother gorilla and baby. You showed the original and the edited version, it was a fantastic example of how editing can improve a photo and make something that would almost have been a throw away (because of the big pile of poo) into something truely beautiful.

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Zoo photography is totally your thing, Tess. You are so very good at it.

I am so not a zoo photographer :laugh: But I did visit Australia Zoo with Ollie a couple of weeks ago. My photography style leans more towards documentary style, so that's what you get here :o

This reminds me so much of newborn photography :laugh:

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Brolga

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Rolling with reflection

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Ollie and the roo

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Goat

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Reading

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And just because...

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Beautiful pics. Have you shown the zoo?- I know I would :)

Yeah kinda. The keepers know about me and the zoo officials know that I do sell them.

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