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Subject: [Leica] Photo: One More Tiger
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 23:34:18 +0530
References: <3cad89990905060926s3084feebr41ae5358d0b787c6@mail.gmail.com> <C6274719.4DE51%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,Bruce,Marc,
Thanks for looking.
You shoot what you get - you cant change position very easily, nor can
you make them pose.(-: . You see tigers probably once in three or four
days, maybe for a minute or two at a time (the last trip was just
plain lucky - I am fairly sure it will not ever happen again that I
will see tigers with such frequency). BTW, this was shot with a D300 +
70-200 with a TC1.7 attached at 120mm @f5 - practically wide open, and
at the shortest end - she was that close.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> I like the light.
> I'm new to TIGER shooting all I'd think I'd know about it is to use the
> longest lens you could afford. And speed might also be good making for a
> huge lens. Big bucks. I'm not equipped.
> Here my hit on it is he's got a hump shape going on on his back and a tree
> growing out of it. Two reasons to go with another shot.
> Something to be said for having the tree's sharp in the background but
> something also to be said for shooting them wide open and having the tree's
> become mush. I'd think they'd be schools for both approaches in the 
> wildlife
> photo kingdom.
> I'd think the trick would be to shoot very many shots to make sure you have
> something to choose like really bang away as all they have to do is shift
> their weight and its a different shot which I think is going on here. 
> That's
> the way it looks to me.
>
> And I've extensively photographed Calico's so I know.
> My kitty her name was Slides in the high grass those butterflies were in
> deep trouble. She stalked them. They were her prey.
> She was the queen of the neighborhood ask anybody.
> It was with her that I first appreciated the feline world.
> She was my window.
> Before her I was totally a doggy guy.
> Though all animals small or large or on the top of my list.
> Say a bad thing about a raccoon and you are out of my rolodex.
> I will probably put it in my will to leave my Leica and Hassy glass to the
> zoo. So all the animals can play with them.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 21:56:05 +0530
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo: One More Tiger
>>
>> Philippe/Mark,
>> Thanks for looking.
>> Mark, do you prefer this one? It is a more interesting shot, as it
>> shows behaviour, but generally viewers like to see the face of the
>> tiger, so I posted the previous one first:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/Ranthambore_2009030
>> 9_785.jpg.html
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>
>
>
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