[Leica] Elephants

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

These are really interesting images.  I would never have thought of 
using such a high ISO in daylight, but obviously it works for you.  To 
me, they seemed to need a little contrast.  I took the second image and 
in Viveza2 made a shadow adjustment of -50%, and a structure adjustment 
of +25%.  Backing off of the red slider at -15% seemed to take care of 
the color cast.  I'm going to start carrying a gray card again for raw 
exposures - usually I just adjust the WB in ACR by eye, but the card 
makes it easier.  Great stuff - the old bull has an interesting life.

Ken

On 10/9/2011 7:04 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> 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
>
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