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Subject: [Leica] Elephants
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:38:15 +0530
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Alastair,
Thanks for looking. I have an original print of Charlie Cramer, bought 
through Mike Johnston's blog, where they offer a print every month by a 
famous photographer to all who want it. Beautiful colour work.
Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

On 24-Oct-2011, at 2:35 PM, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote:

> 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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