[Leica] Flower Bazaar

[Douglas Barry]

Jayanand
I like them all - very old masterish indeed - but I'm really taken with 
"Engrossed" with "Cinematic" a close second. Well done.
I'll have to go in and give one of those Z8s a try. I see that battery 
life is marked down. What do you think?

Douglas


On 22/06/2023 03:58, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
>   I had gone to the Flower Bazaar in Parrys in Chennai to test drive the
> newly released Nikon Z8 with the Nikkor Z24-70mm f2.8S lens. It is a tough
> place to photograph, as the shops have three sources of light - LED,
> Tungsten and Daylight with totally different colour characteristics, as
> well as colours bouncing off the flowers, which also leads to very harsh
> contrast.
>
> In other words, the ideal place to test out new equipment!
>
> This was my first visit in four years (thanks to the Covid shutdowns) to
> this overcrowded, busy market, which we used to visit every month or two in
> the days before the pandemic struck. I did an exposure tweak for this
> series - I shot in Highlight Priority mode with an exposure compensation of
> +1.7 to bring out detail in the faces in the scene.
>
> Cinematic:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-023-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Conversation:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-052-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Engrossed:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-067-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Environmental Portrait:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-079-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Relaxed:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-085-Enhanced-NR-EditBW.jpg.html
>
> Shadow Side Portrait:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-076-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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