Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, Nathan Thanks for looking Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > You did well in the circumstances! I especially like Fern and Droplets. > Looking forward to the tree canopy shots. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 24 Apr 2018, at 05:38, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > > > I have just returned from a trip to Sabah in the Malaysian part of > Borneo, > > in an organized foray into a tropical rainforest. The area I was in has > > been decimated by a century and a half of rapacious logging for hardwood, > > supplanted by plantations catering to the human race's insatiable > appetite > > for, initially, rubber and now, cheap palm oil. Malaysia has, thankfully, > > put the brakes on to some extent, but the pillage goes on unchecked in > > neighboring Indonesia, which has sovereignty over most of Borneo, where > it > > is estimated that a million acres of virgin forest are still lost every > > year. > > > > The rainforest ecology is a race for the treetops, where you get the sun, > > so most life exists 150-200 feet off the ground in the canopy, and very > > much like the Amazon ecosystem, the forest floor consists of poor soil > and > > is relatively lifeless. The great mass of life in these areas are birds > and > > insects as the lack of nourishing ground level vegetation leads to fewer > > mammals. Even there, the two iconic apes of these forests, the Orangutan > > and Gibbon are arboreal, and seldom descend to the ground. > > > > All movement through the forests are on foot through fairly undulating > > terrain, on wet, slushy trails - after all, what would you expect in a > > rainforest but regular rain?This being so, photography turns out to be a > > bit of a challenge, balancing a long lens pointed at the canopy a few > > hundred feet above you through a cluster of leaves, trying to capture a > > fast and constantly moving hornbill, gibbon or orangutan, while at the > > same time, trying not to lose your footing! :-) > > > > This is the background for the first set of the trip, which is to try and > > show the smaller pleasures to photograph during walks in the dark and > > unbearably humid rainforest! All photographs taken with the Nikon D850 or > > Nikon D500 cameras with the AF 300mm f4 or AF 70-200 f4 lens mounted. > Most > > of the photographs are at relatively high ISO because of the paucity of > > light that filters through to the forest floor. > > > > This is the folder containing the set: > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Sabah/Rainforest/ > > > > Please see LARGE > > > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >