Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These are just breathtaking, Jayanand! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jan 15, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > The Mylapore Festival is a street festival held in Chennai during Pongal, > the major harvest festival of this part of India, and a celebratory one at > that. On a photographic foray during the festival, I suddenly found myself > in a theatre, photographing a performance of the premier dance form of > South India, called Bharatanatyam.This was the first time in my life that I > had attempted to photograph dance of any stripe. It took me some time to > fine tune the exposure, but after that enjoyed myself quite a bit. Here are > some shots - all taken with the Nikon D800E and the AFS 85mm f1.8G - > because of the limited reach of the lens, the photographs are all cropped: > > Solo: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/MylaFest_20130113_439.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/MylaFest_20130113_630.jpg.html > > Duet: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/MylaFest_20130113_513.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/MylaFest_20130113_544.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/MylaFest_20130113_544.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/MylaFest_20130113_711.jpg.html > > Please see LARGE > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >