When I travel, my two favorite things to photograph are wildlife and primitive tribes. And with tribes, the more unusual and even bizarre, the better. This is a portrait of a member of the Mudmen tribe in Papua New Guinea. I used a 16mm wide angle for this, and I like the shot a lot although I would have preferred a smaller lens aperture so the foliage background was as sharp as the subject. This was taken in 2005 with my first digital camera -- the Canon 1Ds Mark II -- and back then high ISO settings produced unacceptable noise. 1600 ISO and above was basically unusable. So, in a relatively low light situation like this, I couldn't close the lens down to f/16 or so because that would force the ISO too high -- unless I was using a tripod, which I wasn't. A tripod would have been too inhibiting in terms of capturing the movements of the subject. My settings were 1/200, f/7.1, 400 ISO.
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