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America's Zoos & Preserves
America's Zoos & Preserves
mirdonamy


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Challenge: Magazine Cover Revisited (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: Mar 20, 2004
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Mar 21, 2004

 Photo of meercats playing in the dirt. Taken on manual mode, 200 speed film at the San Diego Zoo.

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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 03/26/2004 11:56:52 PM
This would be stronger with a much tighter crop and no background meerkat. Maybe you could have moved to the left to hide the other guy behind that 'termite mound?'
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Canon PowerShot G6
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
 03/26/2004 03:43:33 AM
Cute little guy. The framing is good as well as the exposure. The one in the back is a bit distracting because of the brightness. I think it would have been less distracting if it had been darkened up a little.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon
 03/23/2004 05:12:33 AM
(I'm writing this to everyone who submitted a landscape shot) The challenge was to produce a shot worthy of a magazine cover but to me a shot like this is not suitable to be put on a "portrait" format magazine.


---ADDITIONAL---
Due to forum discussions and accusations that marking landscapes down is nitpicking, I'm going through them and remarking. I still think some of the landscapes would not make good covers because of their orientation but I am no longer marking down because of that.
I still think landscape is inapropriate for the majority of magazines but I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the photographers.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 28-105mm f/2.8-4.0 Aspherical for Canon
 03/22/2004 11:56:06 PM
cute shot. the wall thingy is just a bit distracting tho
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Nikon D200
 03/22/2004 12:29:00 AM
Wow! This is an awesome shot. This is top quality and pitch perfect. I'm going to give you a high mark; however, you may find others will mark you down for having a horizontally cropped image instead of a vertically cropped image. IT seemed to be an issue in the last magazine challenge.
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