Great shot. Have you any that show the set-up at the baiting area with the people watching etc, as described in your blog? I'd be interested in the wider picture too.
I do have a couple of long shots which I can post, but they basically show a hillside covered in trees! There is a string barrier along the trees, going up the hill, and the people are on one side and the monkeys just where-ever they feel like being. The food is spread about randomly on the ground. So from the photos it just looks like any tree-covered hillside with some people on it.
thanks. It was actually not easy getting good photos -- I took literally hundreds and hundreds to get the good ones I did!
The hillside was extremely steep so if you were standing side-on one foot would be about a foot or so higher than the other, and the ground was very dry and stony so you had to watch your footing (one guy slipped halfway down the hill!). You couldn't move quickly, you basically found a good spot near a monkey and hoped it would give a good shot. Most of the time they were in too much shade or too much sun, or sitting in the undergrowth or up in the trees with branches and stems across their faces, or facing stubbornly in the wrong direction, or you were looking down at the tops of their heads, or they were backlit against the sky, and any number of other problems!!
When I couldn't get any shots I just watched them, when I could get shots I took as many as I could. I was pleased with a lot that I did get!
thanks. It was actually not easy getting good photos -- I took literally hundreds and hundreds to get the good ones I did!
The hillside was extremely steep so if you were standing side-on one foot would be about a foot or so higher than the other, and the ground was very dry and stony so you had to watch your footing (one guy slipped halfway down the hill!). You couldn't move quickly, you basically found a good spot near a monkey and hoped it would give a good shot. Most of the time they were in too much shade or too much sun, or sitting in the undergrowth or up in the trees with branches and stems across their faces, or facing stubbornly in the wrong direction, or you were looking down at the tops of their heads, or they were backlit against the sky, and any number of other problems!!
When I couldn't get any shots I just watched them, when I could get shots I took as many as I could. I was pleased with a lot that I did get!
thanks. It was actually not easy getting good photos -- I took literally hundreds and hundreds to get the good ones I did!
The hillside was extremely steep so if you were standing side-on one foot would be about a foot or so higher than the other, and the ground was very dry and stony so you had to watch your footing (one guy slipped halfway down the hill!). You couldn't move quickly, you basically found a good spot near a monkey and hoped it would give a good shot. Most of the time they were in too much shade or too much sun, or sitting in the undergrowth or up in the trees with branches and stems across their faces, or facing stubbornly in the wrong direction, or you were looking down at the tops of their heads, or they were backlit against the sky, and any number of other problems!!
When I couldn't get any shots I just watched them, when I could get shots I took as many as I could. I was pleased with a lot that I did get!
Thank God for digital cameras and nice big memory cards!
They enable any of us to shoot in this way, whereas in the days of 35mm film only a pro could do so.
You got a tremendous series and I am grateful that you shared them with us: the other shots are just irrelevant.
