Wide angle portrait

In central China there is a mountainous national park in which snub-nosed monkeys reside. Everyday rangers put out bananas to draw them out of the wild so tourists can see these fascinating, blue-faced primates. Most of the time, I use my 100-500mm telephoto lens for frame-filling shots, pictures of babies playing, mothers nursing, and monkeys soaring from tree to tree. Sometimes, though, they allow a close approach. I took this shot with a 16-35mm wide angle set to 28mm, and the settings were 1/160, f2.8, and 400 ISO. Instead of a bokeh background, wide angles give a sense of environment and a unique perspective in which the foreground is disproportionately large compared to the background. There is a wooden boardwalk around the large area where the monkeys take their food, and that’s what I was standing on when I shot this. I was so close -- about 6 feet -- that the bottom of the tree trunk and the forward leg of the monkey weren’t sharp due to the large lens aperture I used. So, I applied Topaz Sharpen AI to those areas. I don’t like when foreground elements are soft.