Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fantastic photos, Jayanand. Beautiful animals. Cheers, Len On Mar 17, 2009, at 12:23 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > Many thanks to all those who took the time to see and comment about > the > first installment of my photographs from Ranthambhore. > > The second page are all about one family, a female and two 9 month > old cubs, > one male and one female. These shots were taken at about 8am, but > in a gorge > where sunlight does not penetrate till much later, so it was pretty > dark. > The kids put on a show hardly 20 feet away, jumping and frolicking. > The > female cub had no fear, and at one point I could not focus on her > because > she was so close. I really thought, at one point, that she would > jump into > our jeep, and affectionately give us a lick! Later on they moved to > a nearby > waterhole, had a drink, relaxed a bit, and then moved on. All in > all I would > guess we were with them for over an hour, and it was the best > sighting I > have ever had. > > These shots are mainly at high ISO, 1600 or 800, and shot handheld, > save for > one where I used a beanbag. The equipment was: > > Nikon D300 + 70-200 f2.8 + 1.7TC > Nikon D300 + 200-400 f4 + 1.4TC > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/?g2_page=2 > > Comments and criticism, as always, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information