https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Share-Your-Photos/TYGER-TYGER/m-p/412575#M3165 <P><SPAN>The Auckland Zoo has finally got a couple of tigers, but they are quite hard to photograph or even see because of their reclusive nature and the barriers put up around their enclosure - much is obscured by vegetation and that's where they tend to stay.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, a couple of days or so I caught one in full view, looking down on me from an overhead walkway. It was obscured by a heavy chain fence, but I have managed to extend my PP skills to remove that so we can see the nature of the beast, without the intrusion of our structures.&nbsp; To get the animal's face correctly exposed against a bright overcast sky, I ended up with an almost white background, which naturally renders a high tone image.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The intensity of the gaze made my mind connect to the first/last verses of William Blake's poem, which I learnt as a child:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN><A href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/75869" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/75869</A> (external link)</SPAN></P><P><SPAN><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Canon EOS 5DsR, EF 70-300L @ 170mm, f/6.3, 1/160sec, ISO-400" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/40666i515F5390A9F901CE/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="_DSR1368 M LR copy 3.jpg" alt="Canon EOS 5DsR, EF 70-300L @ 170mm, f/6.3, 1/160sec, ISO-400" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">Canon EOS 5DsR, EF 70-300L @ 170mm, f/6.3, 1/160sec, ISO-400</span></span></SPAN></P> Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:11:16 GMT Tronhard 2023-04-01T05:11:16Z https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Share-Your-Photos/TYGER-TYGER/m-p/412575#M3165 <P><SPAN>The Auckland Zoo has finally got a couple of tigers, but they are quite hard to photograph or even see because of their reclusive nature and the barriers put up around their enclosure - much is obscured by vegetation and that's where they tend to stay.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, a couple of days or so I caught one in full view, looking down on me from an overhead walkway. It was obscured by a heavy chain fence, but I have managed to extend my PP skills to remove that so we can see the nature of the beast, without the intrusion of our structures.&nbsp; To get the animal's face correctly exposed against a bright overcast sky, I ended up with an almost white background, which naturally renders a high tone image.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The intensity of the gaze made my mind connect to the first/last verses of William Blake's poem, which I learnt as a child:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN><A href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/75869" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/75869</A> (external link)</SPAN></P><P><SPAN><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Canon EOS 5DsR, EF 70-300L @ 170mm, f/6.3, 1/160sec, ISO-400" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/40666i515F5390A9F901CE/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="_DSR1368 M LR copy 3.jpg" alt="Canon EOS 5DsR, EF 70-300L @ 170mm, f/6.3, 1/160sec, ISO-400" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">Canon EOS 5DsR, EF 70-300L @ 170mm, f/6.3, 1/160sec, ISO-400</span></span></SPAN></P> Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:11:16 GMT https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Share-Your-Photos/TYGER-TYGER/m-p/412575#M3165 Tronhard 2023-04-01T05:11:16Z