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Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 09:01:28 +0530
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Mark,
Thanks for looking. My problem is that I am too lazy to sharpen for screen
viewing, so I just reduce the print version. This level of sharpening is
fine for prints.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> Amazing but one crispy critter. You seemed to have been a tad enthusiastic
> with your sharpening. Its easy to do. Having selected the monkey. As there
> does not seem to be a crispy Bokeh which really does look noticeable.
> Its such a long lens I was surprised that there was no camera thing to
> click
> and and find out which one it was!
>
> I have never been in a jungle like that. The light has got to be green
> itself.
>
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> mark at rabinergroup.com
>
>
> > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:56:30 +0530
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
> >
> > My trip to the rainforest was primarily to see the Lion-tailed Macaque, a
> > monkey endemic to the rainforests of the  Western Ghats mountain range
>  in
> > South India, and one of the rarest primates in the world, only an
> estimated
> > 3000 or so survive in the wild. Why it ended up being called Lion-tailed
> > instead of Lion-maned eludes me, because its silver gray mane is far more
> > spectacular than its admittedly lion like tail. Luckily we got close to a
> > troop, and they did not seem bothered in the least - this being the
> > monsoons, the weather and light was fairly miserable, and most shots are
> at
> > ISO 800 and above:
> >
> > A good scratch:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR3583.jpg.html
> >
> > An infant:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR3525.jpg.html
> >
> > On the lookout:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR3637.jpg.html
> >
> > In the habitat:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/_JGR4001.jpg.html
> >
> > High Key (with the tail) :
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Rainforest/copy1.jpg.html
> >
> > Comments & criticism welcome, as always.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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