Robert Watcher
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Don's wonderful recent image of a mother and baby Howler Monkey - came at a time when my wife and I are working on our first book of our travels in Costa Rica and Nicaragua (those countries so far) - - - and basically will be a hard copy of specific posts that Anne made.
This 80 page book is about our stay at Cahuita on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. And of course it has to include a couple of shots of the popular Howler Monkeys. As I mentioned on Don's thead, I'm definitely not a wildlife photographer - but more of a hack. I take whatever is in front of me - at whatever time of day is convenient - and crop to the extreme to get a shot close enough to use. I simply am not one who has the patience to stalk the animals to get that perfect shot, or the commitment to that genre. I far more enjoy it when others do that successfully.
But I am in those countries on a photo adventure of my own and I am required (by Anne) to provide imagery that supports her daily posts on the Journal - - - and so I do end up having tons of wildlife and animal imagery as a result.
So on the monkey theme - here are some of my images from the past few years.
1 ) Cahuita, Costa Rica - this fellow was sitting high up in the roof of the jungle trees along the coastline, requiring a full 600mm equivalent reach and cropping. Harsh background highlights are a result of shooting at 11:45AM noon time. High ISO and slow shutter speeds from them being in dark jungle areas.
2 ) Cahuita, Costa Rica - he was moving swiftly through the trees as evidenced by a couple of his feet and his tail being blurred even at 1/250'th second exposure. Harsh background highlights are a result of shooting around noon time. High ISO and slow shutter speeds from them being in dark jungle areas.
This 80 page book is about our stay at Cahuita on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. And of course it has to include a couple of shots of the popular Howler Monkeys. As I mentioned on Don's thead, I'm definitely not a wildlife photographer - but more of a hack. I take whatever is in front of me - at whatever time of day is convenient - and crop to the extreme to get a shot close enough to use. I simply am not one who has the patience to stalk the animals to get that perfect shot, or the commitment to that genre. I far more enjoy it when others do that successfully.
But I am in those countries on a photo adventure of my own and I am required (by Anne) to provide imagery that supports her daily posts on the Journal - - - and so I do end up having tons of wildlife and animal imagery as a result.
So on the monkey theme - here are some of my images from the past few years.
1 ) Cahuita, Costa Rica - this fellow was sitting high up in the roof of the jungle trees along the coastline, requiring a full 600mm equivalent reach and cropping. Harsh background highlights are a result of shooting at 11:45AM noon time. High ISO and slow shutter speeds from them being in dark jungle areas.
Olympus E-3 : 70-300 f4/5.6 @ 300mm (600mm equivalent) : f5.6 @ 1/100'th : 800 ISO
2 ) Cahuita, Costa Rica - he was moving swiftly through the trees as evidenced by a couple of his feet and his tail being blurred even at 1/250'th second exposure. Harsh background highlights are a result of shooting around noon time. High ISO and slow shutter speeds from them being in dark jungle areas.
Olympus E-3 : 70-300 f4/5.6 @ 125mm (250mm equivalent) : f4.5 @ 1/250'th : 800 ISO
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