As you know, I love doing all things creative.
Photography is one of those things. I admit, I am but an amateur, yet I love to take pictures. The advent of digital photography has been a boon to me! I take hundreds of pictures. Only now I'm deleting 90% of them rather than spending hundreds of dollars on developing blurry shots to use as postcards. Grin.
One of the penguins at the Henry Doorly Zoo
Over the years I *have* learned a bit. Like how to frame the shot. I look at what else I see in the viewfinder and make sure I'm only taking a picture of what I want. I take that extra second to move over just a bit (so I'm not getting that bright blue port-a-potty in the background).
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, when I heard they were looking for a few zoo docents to help with a couple of penguin photography classes, I jumped at the chance.
At the penguin exhibit...
Celebrating International Penguin Day, Mike Benkis, the photographer in charge of the class, started with a few tips on shutter speeds and light settings and other considerations.
Then we headed to the aquarium to see the penguins! Mike helped class participants navigate glass distortion and action shots. As well as one-on-one work as questions came up.
The activity was too tempting... my phone camera jumped into my hand...
There were tidbits of information I picked up while listening to Mike's talk. Little things like holding your camera as close to the glass as possible to reduce glare.
Of course, I was there helping answer questions as a zoo docent, so didn't have my camera with me.
Still, I took a couple of shots with my phone camera. Grin.
Class started before zoo hours... so we had the aquarium to ourselves...
No one seemed to mind... after all... penguin pictures are hard to resist!
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