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Ken Watkins
12-25-2009, 02:57 AM
Technically this is an awful shot the baboon was nearly 200 metres away but I had to have a go and thought it would be nice to share the moment.

Taken in Mountain Zebra National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa,16th December 2009

EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F4 hand-held

F5.6, 1/1000, ISO 400, EV -1/3rd
Alfred Forns
12-25-2009, 02:30 PM
Hi Ken ... not sure if he will ever cone up with a hammer but he ain't letting go !!!
David Fletcher
12-25-2009, 05:27 PM
Nice one Ken. Thanks for sharing. Be interesting to see any shots of it opening the OE. Merry Xmas
Robert Amoruso
12-26-2009, 08:55 AM
Ken,

Not sure why you are saying this is technically an awful image. Composition is a good ROT. Thing I would add is some more sharpness to the baboon. Only thing that would have been better for him is a head turn towards you. Overall, with the clean BG and getting him in the open - well done.
Marc Mol
12-27-2009, 01:19 AM
Great behavioral shot Ken.
TFS
Ken Watkins
12-27-2009, 01:37 AM
Robert,

Basically because it is a very large crop and the detail is lacking, probably to much movement. I ran lots of rounds of selective sharpening on the baboon which made little difference.

I just whish the baboon had been a good deal closer, just because I have never seen this sort of behaviour before and doubt that many others have.

Thanks to everybody else for their comments.