Peek-A-Boo
Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, Bali, Indonesia.
May, 2015Views
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This photo was taken in the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, Ubud, Bali. This photo brings a sense of home and familiarity to me.Time
This is my favourite image of my 2014/2015 Bali trip. I finally got to experience Indonesian culture, and admittedly fell in love within hours. Our 4th day or so into staying in Legian, and we {me and my travel buddy} had decided to do a day tour of Ubud and surrounding. The Sacred Monkey Forest was absolutely beautiful - locals selling bananas to feed the monkeys, monkeys lounging about in their habitat so careless about the tourists. This little fella whom I called George as he was very curious, loved getting his photo taken. I laughed in the mid afternoon about how he posed so much for these photos! I cannot wait to visit a 3rd time!Lighting
All I knew about lighting for this photo was that I HAD to capture him. After following him around and taking many tester shots, he finally settled into his parents arms and posed. This was amazing for me, as the afternoon light peaked through all the tree tops, giving maximum lighting.Equipment
This was shot on a Canon 1100D. No other equipment was involved.Inspiration
The feeling of home and family. This guy almost pleaded me to follow him and photograph him. Whilst other travellers were taking multiple shots of all the monkeys and moving along, I knew I had to capture him as much as I could. He spoke to me in a way that he knew what I wanted - to capture the childlike behaviours that a human possesses. To show that he and his parents are very much like our own.Editing
I always struggle more with portrait photography as opposed to landscape. Portrait photography I find you have to hone in on the facial expressions, correct lighting, depth of field more so, sharpness, levels etc. Because natural lighting from the afternoon light was used, all I had to do was fix up the contrasting, and filter through black and white. Picking the black and white levels proved to be difficult at times, but I was finally happy with the end result. Tweaked enough to show his expression and pose clearer but nowhere near enough to altar his appearance and setting.In my camera bag
I'm a huge fan of different mediums being used to express photography! I carry my hand-me-down film Canon EOS 3000 from my older brother and plenty of black-and-white and colour rolls. My bubbly yellow Instax Mini 8 with plenty of film handy, and my basic but trust Canon 1100D with 2 or more spare memory cards for all the tester shots! Although not the fanciest of cameras, I feel once I am up the level of photography being more than a few shots when I can, I will upgrade. But right now, these 3 are beautiful and help me capture what I need.Feedback
Be patient. Most travellers see something and then move onto the next thing. This is only natural as we humans like to get the most out of everything. But if you find something or rather someone you wish to shoot because you think it'll make an amazing photo, be patient. The landscape or little monkey in this case, isn't just going to stop everything for you to take a quick snapshot then walk onto the next thing. Be happy with your photos. Even if you've taken 100 shots of the exact same setting, be happy that at least one of these is fantastic. Be happy that you have the opportunity to travel to capture such sights. And be happy you have the sight to capture in the first place.
