Because so many of you responded with compliments for the photo of the orangutan mother and baby in my last post, I'm uploading this image of a chimpanzee baby cradled by its mother's hand. I photographed this at the Jane Goodall Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya. The chimps are enclosed in a huge area of many acres, but this mother was very curious to see new humans and sat down inches from the electrified wire fence right in front of me. I lay down on the ground and composed this image just 18 inches away, and because I was using a telephoto lens with an extension tube for close focusing, the depth of field was too shallow to capture the baby's eyes as well as the mother's hand in focus. Therefore, I took two shots: One of the baby's face and the other of the mother's hand. I then composited them together to recreate what I saw but due to the limitations of optics, I wasn't able to capture without the help of Photoshop. My settings were 1/125, f/2.8, 320 ISO, and the lens was a 70-200mm. I took this a few years ago when I was shooting with the Canon 5D Mark II, and I didn't want to raise the ISO too high for fear of excessive noise.
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