Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jayanand, Very unusual images of elephants at play, both young and old. I would think a little more sharpening and contrast would help. I'm not a LR user, so I have no specifics. Thanks for sharing. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Cc: "Adi" <aditya.govindaraj at hotmail.com>; "Divya Mudappa Sridhar" <divya at ncf-india.org>; "Siddharta" <siddharta at gmail.com>; "Kanthimathi Nathan" <kanthi.nathan at gmail.com>; "Deepa" <deepavr1 at gmail.com>; "Kalyan Varma" <kalyan at rtns.org>; "Neela" <neelag at gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 7:04 AM Subject: [Leica] Elephants > My main computer is still not up and running, Intel having replaced my > motherboard under warranty with a dud one, so it has gone back again. > Have these guys never heard of customer service? Well, I downloaded > Lightroom again onto a spare desktop we have lying around, and I > started sifting through my Kenya photographs. The high point of the > trip for me was seeing an elephant herd late one evening where the > juveniles were playing with each other with gay abandon, so my first > set of photographs is from that session. For the first time ever I > have done all post processing in Lightroom, and these are all high ISO > shots (Nos. 2 to 5 are at ISO 3200 on the Nikon D7000), so any tips to > improve and do better will be welcome: > > Firstly, three shots of juvenile elephants at play: > > Fun and Frlic 1: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1314Maraa.JPG.html > > Fun and Frolic 2: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1336Maraa.JPG.html > > Fun and Frolic 3: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1340Maraa.JPG.html > > Seeing these youngsters prancing around evidently had a salutary > effect on a bull, who embarked on some play of his own: > > Seduction 1: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1396Maraa.JPG.html > > Seduction 2: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1400Maraa.JPG.html > > Seduction 3: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1423Maraa.JPG.html > > Comments and Criticism, as always, welcome! > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >