Macaque Scape

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Macaque Scape
I was trying to photograph some hornbills and saw this macaque on the dead tree. Initially took some close ups and continued to wait. Then it started to walk down the branch and then I saw the image. All credit goes to the 200-400 zoom lens. Full frame, no processing.
Mon May 26, 2008 10:22 am
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Commentby kalyan on Mon May 26, 2008 10:24 am

Oops.. no way to edit my info. Also wanted to add that I would have loved this photograph to have been a 16:9 and maybe with a little bit more space on the top.

Commentby Vijay Mohan Raj on Mon May 26, 2008 11:07 am

I think this image is a path breaker, the position of macaque facing the tree is against normal perception. I would stick to the image frame as at present because the trees bifurcate the frame as one going up and one going down. This lends drama to the image which would otherwise be lost as a common silhouette. A couple of dust specks could be easily cleaned out.

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Commentby kalyan on Mon May 26, 2008 11:31 am

Thanks Vijay. I did not do any processing on this one. Straight out of the camera with no crop and no exposure settings. Btw this was the place where CR Naik took me to photograph the hornbills.

Commentby Sudhir Shivaram on Mon May 26, 2008 11:49 am

Kalyan, I like it the way it is. Very dramatic. The macaque just grabs our attention. Well done here.

And yes, you can edit the info, except that you cannot replace the image. From the thumbnails page, you can see edit and delete options.

Sudhir

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Commentby Pramod Viswanath on Mon May 26, 2008 11:56 am

Interesting composition and beautiful perspective here. What I like about this image is the silhouette effect that you have brought about in this composition. Langur's descent and positioning in the frame makes it even more dramatic. Was just wondering as to how it would have looked if it was a vertical frame!

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Commentby kalyan on Mon May 26, 2008 11:57 am

Thanks Sudhir. Figured it out now. Btw I send this photograph for this years BBC 'Animal in its environment' section.

Commentby Siva A N on Mon May 26, 2008 12:21 pm

Unusual image Kalyan. The grayscale feel to the image because of the lighting adds a lot to the image.

Commentby Santosh Saligram on Mon May 26, 2008 6:47 pm

Lovely dramatic perspective this. The monkey almost looks like a quirkily shaped branch! Some flamboyant colours in the frame would have brought this image right alive but I guess the monochromatic form also renders a different feel. I personally would prefer a more decidedly horizontal or vertical frame, but I understand that to get the amount of branches that you have got into the frame would require to keep the image relatively square.