Toque macaques

Gallery: WildlifePosted October 27, 2013278 views4 comments

In Sri Lanka we did a couple of whole day safaris. At the lunch spot near a river, a group of these Toque macaques had made a habit of stealing food from the jeeps and even out of your hands. We had to have our eyes everywhere and eat our sandwiches very quickly.
These macaques are endemic to Sri Lanka. Yala NP.

D7100,Sigma70-200@175mm,1/125,F4.0, cropped to vertical.

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4 comments

Comment posted by Ken Watkins on October 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM

Ellen,
Not exactly the prettiest monkey I have seen, in fact the youngsters eyes are quite scary.
Nevertheless a fine capture

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on October 27, 2013 at 2:11 PM

This is a good full body portrait type pose. Detail on the youngster is especially nice. I wonder if the level of saturation is a little high?

Registered on December 9, 2007, 258 Posts, 9892 Comments

Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on October 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM

Very nice and engaging portrait Ellen. The detail is superb and the exposure control is really well done despite the patchy light conditions. Did you use fill flash here?

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Comment posted by Ellen deBoer on October 29, 2013 at 4:43 AM

Thanks for your nice comments! @Vincent: I didn't use flash, but did some post-processing in Lightroom to lighten the shadows and downtone the highlights.

Registered on March 16, 2006, 419 Posts, 2076 Comments