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Subject: [Leica] Cocoi Heron Fishing Sequence
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:21:32 +0530
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Nathan,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:04 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Gorgeous. Hard to pick the favourite, perhaps the last one.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> > On 19 Sep 2016, at 08:33, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
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> > This ten frame sequence is my favourite of the three or four I managed to
> > photograph on the Pantanal trip. There are gaps in the frames, not
> because
> > of the camera's inability to track the subject, but because of my
> inability
> > to keep the subject centred on the frame, with the result that parts of
> the
> > bird are clipped by the frame. Anyway, I had ten good frames, so I
> > ruthlessly discarded the rest. The bird was quite close, so this is all
> > practically full frame - two or three have been cropped by 5-10% to try
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> > keep the framing more or less similar. That this was a big heron, slow
> > enough to keep track of through a viewfinder, made it relatively easier
> to
> > photograph compared to the fast and maneuverable hawks.
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> > Nikon D500 with the AF-S Nikkor 300mm f4E PF ED VR lens, wide open at
> > 1/3200s. The camera was on Auto ISO, so the ISO varies marginally from
> > frame to frame.
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> > The whole sequence is here:
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/heron/
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> > Please see LARGE
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> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
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> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Cocoi Heron Fishing Sequence)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Cocoi Heron Fishing Sequence)