On the island of Bali, the Monkey Forest is home to large numbers of long-tailed macaques. They are easy to photograph because they are remarkably accustomed to tourists. Most of the adult females have babies, and my primary goal is to take sweet portraits of mothers and babies or just the young ones alone. They seem to be in constant motion, and when I'd see a pose that looked good, I only had a few very brief seconds (or less) to capture it. It's fairly dark in the forest, so that meant the ISO had to be relatively high so the shutter would be fast enough to freeze the frenetic movements of the macaques. In addition, I wanted a certain amount of depth of field. I wanted to avoid having the eyes in focus while the top and sides of the head were soft. I used a 100-400mm Canon zoom to give me maximum flexibility in composition, and my settings for this shot were 1/640, f/8, 2500 ISO. This was handheld because a tripod would have inhibited my shooting too much.
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