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    Hi

    to be precise =
    Geoffroy's spider monkey or black-handed spider monkey

    Captured at Encanta Da Vida, Matapalo, Osa, CR

    Fab to watch; extreme acrobats; difficult to get clear shots. Endangered, perhaps critically endangered now

    saw them in several locations, enjoy

    7D 100-400 eV +1 iso 800 F5.6 1/160
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    Richard,

    Great pose captured here, the colour looks a little strange but then they do vary a lot between the various subspecies

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    Hi Richard, not sure about the shooting conditions, or if you have tried to darken the BKG etc, just looks initially if there is a lot of black running through the image? If you can shed some light, (no pun intended) on the image/PP that would be great.

    Drop me a line if you need some help.

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    Hi Steve

    I will reprocess and document; I used some initial gamma correction probably too much to deepen, then used burn + blur on bright bg.

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    Richard are you using PS as that is the 'basic' platform most use, if so what version? Might be able to ping you some simple thoughts.

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    Hi Steve

    here is jpeg as it looks RAW -DPP (HIGHLIGHT -3) resized - jpeg @240k

    I use DPP from raw then CS5/PS to process.
    Noise reduction by Topaz - not rel here of course

    One problem I do experience is that color in DPP is different from in PS so you might like to advise me as to the settings for those I should be on, though I have read extensively and things should be set right - never quite worked out why theres a difference lol, and seem to manage with it OK.

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    Richard, now that is better straight away. Yes there is a colour shift from DPP to CS/PS, nothing you can do and very frustrating, bet it looks better in DPP.

    OK, if you are using CS5 then I think we might be able to work on this, are you around this morning?

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    PM sent , thanks
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