Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark,Bruce,Marc, Thanks for looking. You shoot what you get - you cant change position very easily, nor can you make them pose.(-: . You see tigers probably once in three or four days, maybe for a minute or two at a time (the last trip was just plain lucky - I am fairly sure it will not ever happen again that I will see tigers with such frequency). BTW, this was shot with a D300 + 70-200 with a TC1.7 attached at 120mm @f5 - practically wide open, and at the shortest end - she was that close. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I like the light. > I'm new to TIGER shooting all I'd think I'd know about it is to use the > longest lens you could afford. And speed might also be good making for a > huge lens. Big bucks. I'm not equipped. > Here my hit on it is he's got a hump shape going on on his back and a tree > growing out of it. Two reasons to go with another shot. > Something to be said for having the tree's sharp in the background but > something also to be said for shooting them wide open and having the tree's > become mush. I'd think they'd be schools for both approaches in the > wildlife > photo kingdom. > I'd think the trick would be to shoot very many shots to make sure you have > something to choose like really bang away as all they have to do is shift > their weight and its a different shot which I think is going on here. > That's > the way it looks to me. > > And I've extensively photographed Calico's so I know. > My kitty her name was Slides in the high grass those butterflies were in > deep trouble. She stalked them. They were her prey. > She was the queen of the neighborhood ask anybody. > It was with her that I first appreciated the feline world. > She was my window. > Before her I was totally a doggy guy. > Though all animals small or large or on the top of my list. > Say a bad thing about a raccoon and you are out of my rolodex. > I will probably put it in my will to leave my Leica and Hassy glass to the > zoo. So all the animals can play with them. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 21:56:05 +0530 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo: One More Tiger >> >> Philippe/Mark, >> Thanks for looking. >> Mark, do you prefer this one? It is a more interesting shot, as it >> shows behaviour, but generally viewers like to see the face of the >> tiger, so I posted the previous one first: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/Ranthambore_2009030 >> 9_785.jpg.html >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >