[Leica] Dolphin Dance

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Jim N, Douglas B
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Cracking shots, Jayanand, and it's Arch and Front On for me.
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> Douglas
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> On 11/08/2017 16:01, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
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>> Wildlife wise, the best encounter of our Canada trip was with a large pod
>> of playful feeding Pacific White-sided Dolphin at the waters around
>> Campbell River in British Columbia. They were great to see, and I spent a
>> lot of time taking a break from photography, just looking at them
>> frolicking. This trip I had decided to borrow Howard Cummer's Fuji
>> 100-400,
>> and stick with a Fuji X-T2 for the whole trip, not taking my Nikon
>> equipment at all, so that I could evaluate the mirrorless kit for action
>> sequences. It was a decision I came to regret quite early on - I was
>> getting around 10% of focused images, on High Speed tracking mode,
>> compared
>> to my normal hit rate of around 80% with the Nikon kit. In other words, a
>> no contest for action sequences, though as you would expect, it was
>> perfectly fine for static shots. Mirrorless still has some way to go, on
>> both focus acquisition and tracking in high speed mode, and I am not going
>> to repeat the experiment anytime soon! Here are some dolphin captures,
>> then, and they are all different ones!
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>> Front On:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3366.jpg.html
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>> Explosion:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3585.jpg.html
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>> Leap:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3382.jpg.html
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>> Arch:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3374.jpg.html
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>> Re-entry:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3376.jpg.html
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>> I posted two of these, because I cannot make up my mind which is better!
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>> Synchronized Swimming 1:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3086.jpg.html
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>> Synchronized Swimming 2:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3087.jpg.html
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>> Dolphin Dance:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/Can
>> ada-20170729-3579.jpg.html
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>> Please see LARGE.
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>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
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>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
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