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    Clipped tail, but these guys have the most ridiculous body proportions that you have to zoom out a lot to get every body part in and then you wouldn't see the face. The very rare Geoffroy's Spider Monkey eating fruit.

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    Hi Dvir - These are really proving to be tough subjects with both their speed and their dark coloring. Sounds like the versatility of a zoom lens might be preferable to a fixed focal length lens though when you go back with a 1DX upping the ISO a bit more, exposing to the right more and cropping later probably won't be as problematic. As to this image, of the three you've posted this works the best. You can bring out some more detail by opening up the midtones. The clipped tail is unfortunate but not a lot you can do about it now, perhaps removing the tc in the field would have helped.

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    Nice pose here Dvir, but would still prefer to have the tail in shot, agree with Rachel on some more detail in the dark sections of fur would benefit.

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    Hi Dvir -- Nice action captured here ! this is the best so far of the three image that u have posted ! The tail is not bothering me but would certainly like to see more details in the fur ! I took ur image to the Lightroom and did the following : fill light +31, shadows -12 , greens -45,sharpening +25 ( radius 1 and details 25 ). Hope you dont mind ! and please let us know your thoughts and also everyone on the RP !

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    Hi Dvir, the old school of thinking that 1/500 for say a 500mm lens has now gone and so with digital you really need to be thinking of much higher SS and backing of on high frame rate (if used) in terms of when shooting subjects like this. Certainly with the 1DX over time you will begin to customise the settings which will provide more 'keepers'. Personally I would have liked a little more space to the left and less to the right, plus all of the tail, but in the heat of the moment and a fixed lens can often limit you capture. Plussing the EV to help the dark shadow areas I think would have helped to open up things and made it easier to extract the detail and this also helps retain sharpness, as the mid tone is where your detail is. If you could add a little more EXIF data next time this would help. Just look at that Histogram and keep ETTR, the more data you capture the better the image and less PP needed. Dvir, is this a big crop?

    Hasseb I think you are going in the right direction, but noise is creeping in a little on the RH arm as viewed where you have opened things up.

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    Thanks for all the feedback. I always try to expose in the middle with scenes with blacks and heavy whites such as this, I guess it would have been better to just let the highlights blow out completely. Also not a crop that much, just I think the focus is more on his back then head, I do have better focused shots, but not with as good of a feeding posture.

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    Hi Dvir very special to get these in front of the cam , so you did well in getting some frames.And very nice to see something different here .
    Image has some technical difficulties that are already covered by others .
    I like this one the most from your images as it has the best shooting angle .

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    This one definitely is the better of the series posted thus far.
    I think the tail would be less problematic if you cropped closer from RHS and bottom?
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    You would have had to blow the bright highlights in the BG to get the maximum STTR exposure. You cannot have all tones in an image like this from my very limited experience.
    Where was your AF point and how big is this as a crop from the original? Just an interesting question, which can help with further constructive feedback.

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