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Subject: [Leica] Elephants
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:05:07 -0400
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Great start Jay, we have just returned from USA and a workshop with John
Sexton. There was a friend of his 'covering' the digital stuff Charlie
Cramer. I suspect we should all be attending his workshops to improve our
images. What he can do with LR/PS is amazing.

Keep them coming, I'm processing in the darkroom this week and printing
next weekend. I may also get around to putting up some more images, before
heading off again in 3 weeks.

Cheers

Alastair

> 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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