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Subject: [Leica] Old Photographs
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:57:50 -0500
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Jayanand, that's one of the best of the lot. Beautiful pose and detail.

On 6/23/21 10:25 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> Jim, Don, Peter, Alan
>
> Thanks for looking and commenting.
>
> Here is the link to "The Hunt":
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Cheetah2.jpg.html
>
> Cheetahs and Zebras always convert acceptably well to B&W because of the
> patterns of their coat, but I am not a very big fan of B&W for wildlife,
> unless, like the shot of the elephant and her calf, the scene is flat and
> bereft of colour anyway! The second B&W in this set, the cheetah, was
> converted only to emphasize the colour of its eyes. My view is that the
> interplay of colours is critical to depict wildlife, even when the
> background is largely monochromatic, and blurred out. Peter mentioned Nick
> Brandt - like everyone else, I was blown away by his early work - I saw it
> first in Lenswork, and then his first book. The limitations of B&W for
> wildlife work soon became apparent with time, because his work became very
> repetitive, as if he had hit a brick wall, and tended to pall.
>
> The last zebra shot has a post processing story behind it - actually, in
> the original capture, the youngster has motion blur, so I never bothered
> processing it, but for some reason retained the RAW file. Topaz Sharpen AI
> fixed that in a jiffy! The moral is to never delete anything, storage is
> cheap!
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:36 PM Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Jayanand,
>>
>> wonderful photos. A few comments:
>>
>> - the first two have the same link, which has left me desperate to see
>> "the Hunt"!! :-)
>>
>> - My favourite is "Cheetah3" which I think is brilliant. You caught it
>> at just the right instant. I would love to see a B&W version as well if
>> that were possible, perhaps with the contrast up.
>>
>> - "First Steps" is gorgeous. I was wondering about a tighter crop and
>> again possibly a B&W version.
>>
>> Apart from my predilection for B&W, I was thinking of the work of people
>> like Nick Brandt (early work only!) and others who worked in B&W and
>> thinking that your shots would stand comparison with theirs.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On 22/06/2021 16:51, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
>>> I have been whiling away my time in the second lockdown by processing
>>> afresh old RAW files from my Africa trips starting with 2008, using the
>>> modern post processing tools available, some of which are frankly
>>> astonishing in what they achieve. The biggest advantage of digital over
>>> film, IMHO, is the ability to treat the RAW file as an unprocessed film,
>>> again and again, as many times as we wish. The software that I used for
>>> this purpose consisted of a mix of some (but never nearly all) of DXO
>>> PureRAW, Luminar 4, Luminar AI, Nik Collection 4, Topaz Sharpen AI, Topaz
>>> Denoise AI and my old standby, the Photokit Suite - with Lightroom CC and
>>> Photoshop CC. Phew!
>>>
>>>   Here is the first set, then:
>>>
>>> Pied Piper:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Storks.jpg.html
>>> The Hunt:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Storks.jpg.html
>>> Family Portrait 1:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Cheetah3.jpg.html
>>> Family Portrait 2:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Cheetah7.jpg.html
>>> Walkabout:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Cheetah1.jpg.html
>>> Training Session:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Cheetah5.jpg.html
>>> Red Eyes:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Cheetah4.jpg.html
>>> Two Headed Hydra:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Cheetah9.jpg.html
>>> Play:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_AfricanElephant.jpg.html
>>> Reassurance:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_AfricanElephant2.jpg.html
>>> Food Security:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_NileCrocodile.jpg.html
>>> First Steps:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/reprocessed/JayanandGovindaraj_Zebra.jpg.html
>>> I have posted the images quite large so that viewers can see all the fine
>>> details that have been retained, coupled with the lack of noise, in these
>>> photographs, thanks to the PP tools at our command nowadays. These were
>>> mainly taken with Nikon APS-C bodies that we could not use beyond ISO
>> 400 -
>>> even ISO 800 used to be a stretch! Those were the days!
>>>
>>> Comments/Criticism/Suggestions are, as ever, most welcome.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>>
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>> --
>>
>> Dr. Peter Dzwig
>>
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Jim Nichols
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