[Leica] Spot-billed or Grey Pelican

[lluisripollphotography]

Hi Jayanand,

Excellent shots, sharp and brilliant, are the colours a little bit saturated maybe?

The B&W is also very nice!

Cheers
Lluis



> El 26 juny 2016, a les 6:35, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> va escriure:
> 
> "A wonderful bird is the pelican,
> His bill will hold more than his belican,
> He can take in his beak
> Enough food for a week
> But I'm damned if I see how the helican!"
> - Dixon Lanier Merritt
> 
> 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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