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Photography: The Sacramento Zoo Dinosaurs

Yesterday, I went to The Sacramento Zoo to see their new collection of enormous animatronic dinosaurs. While the exhibit was fantastic, I struggled hard with my camera. I chose to bring the wrong lens, forgot my glasses, couldn’t get my settings right for anything, and ended up with a lot of bad photos. I’m talking real stinkers.

I’m sharing the ones I sort of liked, as a marker in my journey. These show what I was trying to do: get more varied shots, focus on depth, and play with colors. You’ll see a lot of purposeful blur and my attempts at creative framing. I’ve got a lot of shoots planned in the future, and I suppose each click, good or bad, is a step in my journey.

Let me know if you have a favorite, and if you’re in Sacramento, the dinosaurs are there until October. I know I’ll be headed back again!

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  • These were taken with my Olympus E-M1 MarkII, using a 40-150mm lens and edited with Lightroom Classic.

8 thoughts on “Photography: The Sacramento Zoo Dinosaurs”

  1. There are some really good photos in this set, Bridgette! The first Giraffe photo is so fun, I had to laugh, I love his tongue sticking out at the girl. Number 6, the sleepy critter is sooo cute! Happy weekend!

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    • Thanks, John! I was just super disappointed that more shots didnā€™t work out. I thought I got some good action shots of the lions but they were super out of focus. I think my shutter speed was too low to compensate for the light, trying to not raise my ISO so high that I get all that noise in my pictures. Iā€™m sure Iā€™ll get it eventually. This was midday light which I find the most challenging.

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