[Leica] Cocoi Heron Fishing Sequence

Jayanand Govindaraj jayanand at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 22:30:09 PDT 2016


Luis,
Thanks for looking.

Actually, when taking the sequence, I did not have a clue how it would turn
out, as I have never really tried these sort of "birds in action" sequences
before!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:51 PM, lluisripollphotography <
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jayanand,
>
> Outstanding shots, really, really wonderful!!!!
>
> I’ve put it in slideshow mode maximum size and viewed several times, many
> great images here, fantastic!!!
>
> I can feel the emotion you should experimented when you was shooting this
> sequence!!!
>
> Cheers
> LLuis
>
>
>
> > El 19 set 2016, a les 8:33, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> va
> escriure:
> >
> > 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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