Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/14

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Subject: [Leica] Thaipusam Panorama
From: cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:16:03 +0800
References: <mailman.2346.1329244351.33714.lug@leica-users.org>

> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:32:25 +0530
> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Leica] Thaipusam Panorama
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> 
> I tried my hand at a hand held panorama - 16 shots with the Nikon D700 and
> 85mm f1.8 lens. It depicts on of the days of the festival of Thaipusam at
> the Kapaleeshwar Temple in Chennai. This is an important festival dedicated
> to Murugan, son of Shiva. A float or "Theppam" is hand pulled around the
> temple tank as part of the celebrations - it can be seen in the right
> centre of the panorama, on the far bank of the pond - it is essential to
> see it large, and please bear with me, it is a large file:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Panoramas/Thaipusam.jpg.html
> 
> Comments and criticism, as always, welcome.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand

Hi Jayanand,
Very impressive. I really like the black rendering with the D700 - very 
little noise.
Was it shot at ISO 6400?
Cheers
Howard