Monkey business

[Rob Beltman]

I was able to shoot these monkeys in the jungle of venezuela near the angel falls. They were many and quite curious. I was able to shoot them with my eos 3000 and 80-200 zoomlens. I was quite surprised by them and shot away on the automatic program (portrait)

Which one do you like best?

http://www.icsb.nl/backup/monkey.jpg

http://www.icsb.nl/backup/monkey2.jpg

http://www.icsb.nl/backup/monkey3.jpg

Curious to get some pointers from y'all!

[tomdon]

I like the third one best, but I think it may be slightly better if it was cropped closer to the monkey on the right hand side. Then I would have it wider on the left if you see what I mean, that way the monkey is looking across the image. I have not seen the original though so I dont know how good this will look lol.

[Rob Beltman]

Thank for the pointer. Unfortunately, this is the original. I just suffered from something I always have when I shoot fast; I center too much.
Oh well...guess I'll have to go back there to make a better one!

[Big_B]

I like them, although I have one request. Could you darken the background just a little? I keep finding my eye drawn to the sunlight coming through the leaves rather then the monkey.