Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/26

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Subject: [Leica] Spot-billed or Grey Pelican
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:42:07 +0530
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Jim, Montie, Gene
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Gene Duprey <geneduprey2015 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nice captures Jayanand.
>
> Gene
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Montie <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Like the third one best.
> >
> > Montie
> >
> >
> > >>Some Spot-billed Pelican studies from the Adyar Poonga, a protected
> > wetlands area behind my house. The light was soft, muted and very clear
> > after morning rains and the consequent overcast sky. All the frames are
> as
> > shot with no cropping at all, as the couple were swimming quite close to
> a
> > pedestrian walkway across a narrow stretch, the only place to photograph
> > from, as visitors are not allowed inside under directions from our
> Supreme
> > Court They did not get very active, though, so I could not put the
> tracking
> > abilities of the D500 to the test.
> >
> > Nikon D500 with 300mm f4 and TC 1.4x, giving an effective 630mm f5.6
> lens,
> > which is lightweight and very easy to hand hold, and can be used wide
> open
> > with no loss of image quality.
> >
> > The first three are in colour, and last in monochrome:
> >
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/Vedbirds/Poonga-20160625-1029.jpg.html
> >
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/Vedbirds/Poonga-20160625-716.jpg.html
> >
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/Vedbirds/Poonga-20160625-371.jpg.html
> >
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/Vedbirds/Poonga-20160625-390.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jayanand
> >
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In reply to: Message from montoid at earthlink.net (Montie) ([Leica] Spot-billed or Grey Pelican)
Message from geneduprey2015 at gmail.com (Gene Duprey) ([Leica] Spot-billed or Grey Pelican)