Hubbard's Sportive Lemur

Gallery: WildlifePosted July 8, 2012200 views7 comments

Hubbard's Sportive Lemur photographed in the Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, Madagascar. These nocturnal lemurs spend the day perched in tree forks like this.

Canon 5D MkIII, EF500 f/4 I + 1.4x, tripod, ISO1600, f/8, 1/40, shot vertical with slight crop for composition.

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7 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on July 8, 2012 at 8:46 AM

Nice pose but I do wish the face was more visible. I am guessing this was taken under less than ideal light conditions. IMHO it could be just a tad darker. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 8, 2012 at 2:44 PM

Nice look at this fellow!
Love the face and eyes - good detail and exposure.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on July 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM

Nice eye contact and good detail. The tree makes a nice frame.

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on July 9, 2012 at 1:38 PM

Sportive lemurs are cool.

I like shy pose here, quite a typical one. Your techs look perfect; the long FL blurred the BG nicely and the sharpness is impressive at that SS and FL, even with a tripod, did you use MLU and remote as well? Just out of interest, how do you like the 5DMk3 for wildlife by the way?

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Comment posted by Simon Bennett on July 9, 2012 at 7:44 PM

Thank you all for your comments.

Vincent, I didn't use MLU/remote just gitzo/mongoose gimbal head. I took a 7D and 5DMk3 on the trip. Mostly I used the 7D/500mm+1.4x for birds/distant lemurs (although sometimes switched bodies to 5D3 If I could get close enough), and mostly used 5D3 with 70-200m for closeups - you can get quite close to many of the lemurs.

The better high ISO performance of 5Dmk3 in rainforest was most useful. I was reluctant to use flash as most of the lemurs who have anything to do with tourists, actively avert their eyes from directly looking at cameras due to the amount of flash they are subject too. It was very hard to get a full eye contact portrait of a lemur.

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on July 10, 2012 at 2:10 PM

Hi Simon,

Great eyes and certainly the shyness comes through strongly on this image - looks to me like that lemur would prefer to be almost ANYWHERE else than sitting here! Techs look quite strong on this image - nice and sharp and certainly exposure looks good.

One thing caught my eye here as a bit of a distracting element - that gray tree trunk along the right side at eye level and above looks strangely "misty" or blurry when it appears to be contiguous with the sharper regions of the tree (so it appears like it was intentionally blurred - tho' I realize it may just be further in the background). If it is just a background tree I'd be tempted to experiment with selectively darkening it a little (and personally I might be tempted to do the same to distant green/blue background).

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on July 14, 2012 at 10:25 PM

Nice eye contact, looks as though you've just given it a thorough talking to

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