You Look At Me, And I'll Look At You!

Posted by geoffs on Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:53 am

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It's been too long since I've posted any photos here but I'm back in the saddle now.

I had a wet but enjoyable day at the Portland Zoo today. Although I intended to bring along some camera support (a monopod) it ended up not working out so I decided to just shoot portraits with my 300 f4L IS lens. I surprised myself and got some good ones.

These monkeys sure are good at looking back at you when you look at them!

Canon 20D, 300mm f4L IS, ISO 800, f4, 1/40 second handheld. In PSCS, slight crop, NeatImage, curves, USM.

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by Jens Peermann on Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:05 am

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The facial expression is very human. The light shooting out from the back of his head is not.

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by Mike Moats on Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:56 am

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Hey Geoffs, What an awesome looking little face! Very nice sharp image, love the texture in the hair. Nice work

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by Georgina Salup on Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:55 am

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Kind of sad expression...but a very lovely portrait.

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by geoffs on Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:12 am

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Jens - picky, picky :roll: Ok, I've done some PS work to remove the "ray of light". Result is below.

Mike - thanks!

Georgina - I think it's the way that the monkey's facial hair curls down around its mouth that gives it the sad look. It makes the mouth sort of look downturned.

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by Paul Klenck on Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:21 am

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Thanks for getting rid of that ray.
Terrific portrait!! What species? I've never seen these before.

Good to see you posting again!!

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by robert hasty on Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:23 am

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Long time no see Geoff's

Cool looking character you have here. Nice portrait. My guess would be you could have posted this in wildlife with a (c). All good here to and im no moderator

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by geoffs on Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:34 am

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Hi Paul and thanks for your comment!

I knew I should have kept a record of the names of the animals I was taking pictures of but, of course, I didn't. Fortunately, the Portland Oregon Zoo keeps an online set of identification pages for the animals in its care (Oregon Zoo Animal List). Looking it up there, I see that this was one of the Pale Faced Saki Monkeys - I believe a female. I have a portrait of the male which I'll post tonight or tomorrow.

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by geoffs on Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:38 am

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robert hasty wrote:Long time no see Geoff's Cool looking character you have here. Nice portrait. My guess would be you could have posted this in wildlife with a (c). All good here to and im no moderator Welcome back!

Thanks, Robert. It hadn't even occurred to me that I could post this in the Wildlife forum. I'll let one of the moderators give me their judgement on that.

Also, thanks for the welcome back. Sometimes life just gets too darned busy!

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by Carol Clarke on Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:52 am

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Very nice portrait Geoff. This one would certainly have a place in the Wildlife Forum (I think you got your shots placed the wrong way round!)

The expression you captured here and the wonderful eye detail really make this image stand out!

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by Jens Peermann on Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:15 pm

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Thanks Geoff. I'm happy now.

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by Paul Klenck on Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:29 pm

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Got you taken care of Geoff. No more monkeying around today, OK!

Unless, of course, the monkeying around means posting more monkey pictures. That'd be OK!

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by geoffs on Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:31 pm

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Hey, I've got some more of 'em too, Paul! I'll wait until tomorrow before I post any others.

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by Paul Skoczylas on Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:37 pm

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Doesn't look too happy does he?

Nice portrait, though.

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by Dennis Olivero on Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:34 pm

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Very nice close up of a very interesting subject. I like how you included the shoulder and part of the arm of the frame edge.Background is excellent and well managed (zoo)..I'd probably take a little off of the top unless you are saving that for text. Love the detail, dof is solid, sharp throughout. Thanks for posting..

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by moose henderson on Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:07 pm

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good portrait, like the dark mood

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by geoffs on Sun Feb 13, 2005 6:10 pm

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Dennis Olivero wrote:I'd probably take a little off of the top unless you are saving that for text.

Dennis, I should have done the top crop on the repost. You'll notice the original posted image had more off of the top and I forgot to do that on the reedit. One of these days I'll get it completely correct... :roll:

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by E.J. Peiker on Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:55 pm

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A fantastic shot. Really well done - excellent portrait.

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by geoffs on Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:56 pm

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Thank you, EJ, I really appreciate your kind remarks!

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by NDCheryl on Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:34 pm

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Very cool portrait. Thanks for posting.

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