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Subject: [Leica] Elephants
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 10:14:33 -0500
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Hi Jayanand,

Very unusual images of elephants at play, both young and old.  I would think 
a little more sharpening and contrast would help.  I'm not a LR user, so I 
have no specifics.

Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Cc: "Adi" <aditya.govindaraj at hotmail.com>; "Divya Mudappa Sridhar" 
<divya at ncf-india.org>; "Siddharta" <siddharta at gmail.com>; "Kanthimathi 
Nathan" <kanthi.nathan at gmail.com>; "Deepa" <deepavr1 at gmail.com>; 
"Kalyan 
Varma" <kalyan at rtns.org>; "Neela" <neelag at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 7:04 AM
Subject: [Leica] Elephants


> My main computer is still not up and running, Intel having replaced my
> motherboard under warranty with a dud one, so it has gone back again.
> Have these guys never heard of customer service? Well, I downloaded
> Lightroom again onto a spare desktop we have lying around, and I
> started sifting through my Kenya photographs. The high point of the
> trip for me was seeing an elephant herd late one evening where the
> juveniles were playing with each other with gay abandon, so my first
> set of photographs is from that session. For the first time ever I
> have done all post processing in Lightroom, and these are all high ISO
> shots (Nos. 2 to 5 are at ISO 3200 on the Nikon D7000), so any tips to
> improve and do better will be welcome:
>
> Firstly, three shots of juvenile elephants at play:
>
> Fun and Frlic 1:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1314Maraa.JPG.html
>
> Fun and Frolic 2:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1336Maraa.JPG.html
>
> Fun and Frolic 3:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1340Maraa.JPG.html
>
> Seeing these youngsters prancing around evidently had a salutary
> effect on a bull, who embarked on some play of his own:
>
> Seduction 1: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1396Maraa.JPG.html
>
> Seduction 2: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1400Maraa.JPG.html
>
> Seduction 3: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110917_1423Maraa.JPG.html
>
> Comments and Criticism, as always, welcome!
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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