[Leica] Flower Bazaar

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Aram,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 9:08 AM Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Lovely series with different lighting. Well seen and captured.
>
> Aram
>
> On 6/21/2023 7:58:17, Jayanand Govindaraj 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
> >
> --
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
>
> “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
> would ever have dared dream.”
>     James D. Watson
>
>