Mother Capuchin Nursing Baby
This White-Faced Capuchin nursing her baby was photographed in Palo Verde National Park in Costa Rica. Normally, when photographing wildlife with a telephoto lens, I use a tripod with a gimbal head. Much of the time, with monkeys in the wild, I find that you have to constantly move around too much for a tripod to be practical, so this shot was hand held. For this shot, I focused on the mother's eyes, but the baby was the one looking directly at me. I use movable single point focusing on my Nikon DSLRs for pretty much everything, and sometimes changing focus point location in the viewfinder quickly to catch a shot is not easy. I think the photo is still a powerful image, but if I were to get a similar photo opportunity, I would try to focus on the baby's eyes.
nikon D850 and nikkor 300mm f/4 PF
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