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Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:33:33 -0400

I no longer have the raw sharpening thing on any more as it seems to be too
much. The setting which is at the very beginning. CS5.
Too extra crispy.

I like Original Recipe.  You dial it in later.


--------------------
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: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 09:01:28 +0530
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
> 
> 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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>> 
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