Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Le 26 janv. 11 ? 05:19, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit : > > Philippe, Tina, Bob, Ric, Jim, Michiel and Alastair, > > Thanks for looking. Philippe it is good to see you have not > forgotten your > Hindi! > Google translation helps ... > A few things - I deliberately processed 'Cop' and 'Coast Guard' as > you see > it to approximate what I was seeing at that time - the first as > black with > small details where the setting sun was hitting him, the second as > high > contrast. There is detail in both the RAW files, and can be brought > out. > If you do can you let us see? > When you expect a quarter of million people to turn up, you need a > lot of > policemen around - but when they do not turn up it looks excessive. > The main > reason for the low attendance was it was a Monday, and a working > day. I > believe the big crowds had turned up on Sunday. Water access was not > allowed > because it is impossible to manage such a crowd at water's edge, > especially > as the shelf falls away very steeply here, and currents are wicked, > and > accidental drownings are not rare events. You will see very few people > attempting to swim in the sea on the East Coast of India - the West > Coast is > where all the famous beaches and placid seas are. > Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't thought of this ... I must be missing the sunshine more than I had thought then ... > I am at present debating whether I should get a normal range zoom in > lieu of > primes from 24 to 85mm, as Nikon do have a very fine one, the 24-70 > f2.8, > but the weight keeps putting me off from buying it! > From what I've seen it still offers a fair amount of distortion, perceptible through the VF, I wonder how much correction can (tolerably) be applied. Weight : I bought a harness a couple of years ago when I bought the hefty Oly 50-200; I've never used it, but this might change with my bad back now; anyway you feel like you were about to put your petticoat on once you have it on ... Amiti?s Philippe > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:30 AM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote: > >> Very nice slice of life. I like the discipline of using one lens, >> and I >> think it shows here. Double pose is almost triple pose, and a very >> fine >> catch. The short tele makes teenagers more 'compressed' with the >> background. >> >> Cheers >> >> Alastair >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > NO ARCHIVE