{"id":551,"date":"2015-01-03T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zooshots.co.uk\/?p=551"},"modified":"2018-06-04T11:15:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:15:49","slug":"wisent-european-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zooshots.co.uk\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Wisent I"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0shot taken during a winter visit to ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in southern England. There had been some snowfall a day or two prior to my visit. The elevated position of the park meant that the snow was still plentiful on the ground when I arrived, and there was a very dense fog.<\/p>\n

Consequently, it was quite easy to get a clean background — at other times of the year\u00a0I’m often looking around for alternative viewpoints,\u00a0trying to minimise the impact of an ugly\u00a0tree \/ fence \/ hedge \/ building which is intruding into the background of a shot. With snow and fog combined, there was much more freedom to compose the subject, with a plain or near-plain background available at almost all shooting angles.<\/p>\n

With this shot of one of the small herd of European bison (wisent), I was able to shoot from a near standing position; keeping the subject to the right, a wide lens meant that, even though I was close to the subject, I could also include a portion of the snow-covered paddock.<\/p>\n

I chose to exclude the main identifying features (the horns) on this particular shot, concentrating on the eye and beard.<\/p>\n

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I’d framed the shot in-camera in portrait format:<\/p>\n\n