We're on Lemur Lane!
That's amazing.
They're about to come out in 70 acres of
awesome woods, and the first thing I'm
thinking is, because I don't at all know
what to expect, as much as I would love
to do a little front lighting on this,
that'd be a little too distracting to
them. So I'm going to have to make sure I
keep repositioning myself.
Okay he's amazing, one of the things that
I'm hoping to get is a combination of
shots. So really nice close-ups hopefully
some group images some fast action shots.
If we can get any leaping. Are there
things I need to keep in mind from you
know, respect to animals perspectives.
Absolutely. So anytime we go into their
space, we want to make sure we maintain a
safe distance from them, and to keep them comfortable.
Okay. I'd like to keep about
a 3-foot distance between us and them.
In addition because I still don't know what
they're going to do. I'm gonna be having the
24-70mm zoom lens, and this is really
one of the best lens choices to use in a
situation like this, and you can respond
pretty quickly. Oh my god,
the other thing I'm going to do is keep
a relatively fast shutter speed, and what
I don't want to happen is for them to
move so quickly and I miss it, because
I'll have unintentional blur. So I'm
going to make sure my aperture is set to a
wider scope of focus. I'll be shooting at
f/4 so I would like to switch to the 70-200mm
from here, because I've got a good
shot, and I think they're going to stay
relatively in range, until they leap away.
Changing my angle to him, and I'm just
going to keep going a little bit closer
until he decides he doesn't want me
there, and leaves me, which kind of
reminds me of my ex-boyfriend. Hi Julian,
I bet you pay for the movie. I'm doing
some very cool background and foreground...
Oh my gosh, this is awesome, just chillin
with the Sun. A ring-tailed lemurs love
to absorb the heat from the Sun, and the
way that they will do so is by just kind
of sitting upright, opening up their
knees, and opening up their arms, and just
sitting back and closing their eyes.
This is brilliant by the way,
because I've got this great greenery to
the left. A branch to the right, an
incredible pose. I've never like
seen this before. Not even like, on the
nature channel. Light just changed
dramatically, again any time you're
shooting outdoor, especially outdoors and
especially with all the treetops. You're
going to find the light kind of going
everywhere. I love shooting through, my
favorite thing is just add such cool context.
So I'm coming away, so they're going to go
back into a huddle.
They're very weather responsive. Hey guys,
it's getting cold. Jump in, okay? That's
fantastic. Literally, as I get closer, because I
got a great one of the three of them.
All bright, and as I'm getting closer and
changing my composition. I'm going to be on f/28.
Which means dropping my ISO.
Oh hi bud, you join the huddle, yes you
are. I love this eyes-closed thing. Yhey
look they're like, "I need coffee". That's
just a great way to live.
Oh, I'm switching a to a prime lens, that
allows me to go very shallow
depth-of-field, to an f/14, because I'm
shooting pretty close to them. That f/14
is going to be a very tight field of
focus, which means that most of the shot
will be thrown out of focus, but what
that affords me, is the ability to get
those really sharp focus on just the
eyes. Bringing my ISO down to about a 400,
I was closer to an 800 before. Oh my
goodness, f/1.4 and shutter speed of
about 1/2,000th.
Lens it's a very different lens than
that the 70-200 f2.8. It's much faster
glass. He's really tight focus on these
gorgeous eyes, and the same thing, this is
a heavy lens. So I've got to steady it as
I shoot. You just put that camera down
for a second, because after a while your
arm starts shaking a little bit.
Hi guys, we're leaving you, but you were the
best. Okay, I really did get that shot. Now
some of my favorite images were a full
lens straight on shot. Fingers to tail,
looking directly into the camera.
Keeping that blue sky, and holding the
highlights on his white fur, and this
beautiful shot of two lemurs with two
very different expressions, shooting at
an f/1.4 but from a distance that keeps
both faces sharp, and this one is just
hilarious, like he's saying "very nice
photographs!".
So at this point you're going to
have to say go now.
Yes.. Thank you!
it's like you know put down the ice
cream. We should go now. So happy, had a
wonderful time photographing these
amazingly gorgeous lemurs. We got
everything we're hoping to get, and a ton
more.
Thank You Duke Lemur Center.