Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ric, Montie, Philippe, Don D, Douglas B Thanks for looking. I am an agnostic, but I like photographing around religious buildings and festivals, because most people, quite clearly are not! Cheers Jayanand On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 5:33 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Good stuff, Jayanand, but Grandparenting ll is the most attractive to me. > Douglas > > > On 30/04/2019 11:33, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > > I got out and went on to the streets for photography after quite some > time > > last week, for the Ther (Chariot) festival at Parthasarathy Temple in > > Triplicane. I always find it more rewarding, photographically, to look > away > > from the huge, intimidating Ther, to the reactions in the crowd, and this > > time was no different. I went out with the Nikon D850, because my > favourite > > lens currently for these sort of crowded situations is the AFS Nikkor > 58mm > > f1.4, which has such beautiful transitions that everything looks dreamy > and > > painterly, and the subject literally pops, especially when used wide > open. > > This very modern lens is, refreshingly, not designed for maximum > sharpness > > but for a "look", which at least I really like. All street portraits, > > except for the last one, which I suppose is half a portrait, at least!: > > > > Boys do not normally do this, it is the province of the ladies! > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-002.jpg.html > > > > Grandparenting: > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-008.jpg.html > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-053.jpg.html > > > > Bystanders: > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-026.jpg.html > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-035.jpg.html > > > > Three Generations: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-047.jpg.html > > > > Old Friends: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-054.jpg.html > > > > Piety: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-058.jpg.html > > > > Offering: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/Triplicane/Triplicane-20190425-059.jpg.html > > > > 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 >