In the Monkey Forest where I photographed the Balinese dancers from the previous post, there were -- obviously -- a lot of monkeys. They were all over the place, actually. Lots of mothers with very young babies. I wanted to fill the frame with one of the little faces, particularly as it was nursing, and I worked hard to get the picture you see here. The mothers were constantly moving, and the babies were constantly squirming so it was a real challenge. Eventually, my persistence paid off and I captured exactly what I wanted. I used a 100-400mm lens for this, and the settings were 1/640, f/8, and 2500 ISO. It was very dark under the thick jungle vegetation, and that's why I need such a high ISO. I shot from a very low angle -- about 14 inches above the ground -- because that made the portrait more intimate than had I been shooting from a standing position. It was impossible to use a tripod because of the constant movements of these long tailed macaques.
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