[Leica] Dolphin Dance

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

George,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:22 PM, George Lottermoser <
george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 11, 2017, at 10:01 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > Front On:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3366.jpg.html
> >
> > Explosion:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3585.jpg.html
> >
> > Leap:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3382.jpg.html
> >
> > Arch:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3374.jpg.html
> >
> > Re-entry:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3376.jpg.html
> >
> > I posted two of these, because I cannot make up my mind which is better!
> >
> > Synchronized Swimming 1:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3086.jpg.html
> >
> > Synchronized Swimming 2:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3087.jpg.html
> >
> > Dolphin Dance:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/dolphin/
> Canada-20170729-3579.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE.
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
>
> each a treat for the eyes
>
> ESPECIALLY the two "synchronized swimming"
>
> fond regards,
>
> George
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