[Leica] Cocoi Heron Fishing Sequence

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Jose, Ted, Philippe,

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Philippe Amard <
photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 10 WOWs in return Jayanand!
>
> Wonderful series, and worth entering in a contest on wildlife photography
>
> Keepers, all of them in any case
>
> mities
> Philippe
>
>
> 2016-09-19 8:33 GMT+02:00 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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
> and
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The whole sequence is here:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/heron/
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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