An Antelope

[GowthamK]

Clicked him in a zoo at Shimla,India in the month of August.


Comments and criticism are welcome.

[rpcrowe]

Sometimes it is difficult, if not impossible to do but, I try in zoo shooting not to show the evidence of the enclosure and therefore make the animals look like they are in the wild. I often do this by:

1. Trying not to get the walls or fencing in the background by cropping in camera
2. Using severely limited DOF to blur evidence of the fence
3. Closely crop the animal to avoid the man-made objects
or
4. Cloning out the fencing

[bje07]

Sometimes it is difficult, if not impossible to do but, I try in zoo shooting not to show the evidence of the enclosure and therefore make the animals look like hey are in the wild. I often do this by:

1. Trying not to get the walls or fencing in the background by cropping in camera
2. Using severely limited DOF to blur evidence of the fence
3. Closely crop the animal to avoid the man-made objects
or
4. Cloning out the fencing

And avoid the concrete floor

[rpcrowe]

Some zoos make it easier for the photographer and doubtlessly more pleasant for the visitors by masquerading the human engineered portions of the enclosures.

However, when confronted with the obvious evidence of human engineering, a very closeup shot of the animal combined with a wide aperture (allowing a very narrow DOF) can mitigate the appearance of any human engineered portions of the image such as in this shot of a lemur from the San Diego Zoo...

[madcrow]

Nice images, second a real beauty.

[Shadowman]

And sometimes you have to wait for the crowds to thin before you can sidle up to the enclosure, nicely done.

[GowthamK]

Nice image Richard.
I never really had anything in mind about the surroundings when I clicked the picture.
Thinking about it now I could have done really better with those points in mind.
Anyways Great suggestions guys will keep those in mind when I visit zoo in future.

Happy Light

-GK

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[LePetomane]

I can't add anything to the comments. We have Pronghorn Antelope here that look very different from yours.

[Rent]

I didn't think antelope had antlers ( I could be wrong )
Roy

[terrib]

I didn't think antelope had antlers ( I could be wrong )
Roy

I'm pretty certain that animal is of the Cervidae family which includes deer, elk, etc. Antelopes are of a different family and do not have antlers but have horns. And technically, the North American Pronghorn is not an antelope either although many refer to them as such.