Baby Orangutan by Kathleen Brown

Wednesday, 21st March 2007

Baby Orangutan

by Kathleen Brown

This baby is about one and one half years old and stands about 24 inches, still very tiny. Mom usually has her tucked away making it very difficult to photograph her. I got lucky on this and got a couple of good shots of her, I think she is just beautiful with those eyes and her tuffs of hair sticking up like this.
I had to set the aperture wide open to get enough light on her and set the shutter speed as fast as I could to get her in good focus as she was in constant motion.

Taken with a Nikon D-200 camera with a Nikon 80-400 mm lens at a focal length of 400mm, shutter speed of 1/60, aperture of F/5.6, with a tripod.

Kathleen Brown

13 Comments

Dean Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 5:47 am
Lovely shot Kathleen!! Well done!!
Tara Mc Namee Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 9:21 am
Beautiful image, well done! Tara
Leighann Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 11:13 am
Gorgeous job, Kathleen
Eric Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Nice and sharp for 1/40 at 400mm. Great shot!
Pieter -sAner- van der Horst Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Very, very sharp. Lovely expression. Just a sweet, sweet picture!
Ann Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Absolutely gorgeous.
O cohen Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
looks like she’s posing just for you! how great!
Anurag Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 6:37 am
A great portrait. lovely expression. The hand position is very elegant.
Peter Cooney Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
So funny, like Stan Laurel, heh heh.
Su Says:
March 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Love these beautiful endangered creatures. Congrats.
renee Says:
September 6th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
so cute!
Su Says:
September 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
This is a great shot Dont you just love her?
mike Says:
September 27th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
You can tell how young she is.