Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] Elephants
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:58:31 +0200
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Beautiful. To think that still today, in the 21st century, these magnificent 
animals are being hunted just to satisfy Chinese demand for ivory is 
depressing.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA



On Oct 9, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> 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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