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D810 and the wild boars
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astwood1285
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Number 1 and number 4 for the boars in the mist prize.
nilanjanray
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What is your idea of 'polished' in wildlife photography?
Portraits with proper subject isolation? Magical moment? Pose, light? A beautiful animalscape?
One has to be happy with what one gets. Too many factors beyond one's control. I remember the cold and the mist and light and the rocking canoe. I was actually looking for a leopard who was a frequent morning visitor, but encountered the boars instead.
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My comment actually wasn't a criticism if that is how it came across. Folks tend to massage their photos to death, whether it is DR, or sharpening, or composition, or whatever, yours are not like that.What is your idea of 'polished' in wildlife photography?
Portraits with proper subject isolation? Magical moment? Pose, light? A beautiful animalscape?
The cold and the mist and light and the rocking canoe, -- all of this is somehow present in these pictures, which is what I really like.
tommiejeep
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Nilanjan,
I really like them. Out of the ordinary and the mist and setting makes the quite special. Where were you able to use a Canoe, Kabini area? The 80-400 afs makes a great general wildlife lens and seems great/manageable for a Canoe .
Many thanks for posting
I really like them. Out of the ordinary and the mist and setting makes the quite special. Where were you able to use a Canoe, Kabini area? The 80-400 afs makes a great general wildlife lens and seems great/manageable for a Canoe
.Many thanks for posting
Your statement is "by no means perfect in the conventional sense" of making sense. Nobody--I mean nobody--has any idea what you mean by "polished" or "conventional," both of which hardly seem apropos, nevertheless.
The same can hardly be said of your obscure adjectives.
First comment that actually makes sense.
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I'm not in the mood to pick up a fight over pointless rude comments of yours, but even more so because I don't want to criticize the particulars of something I do like as a whole (and no, it is not your post I'm referring to).
These are all great, but these three I love. I never would have thought pictures of pigs would be so interesting. Thanks for sharing!
nilanjanray
Leading Member
Thanks Tom. These were taken in Satpura National Park, MP. One can do canoe safaris in the morning.
80-400 VR is perfect for a canoe. On a full frame camera, it is a little short for animal (e.g. tigers and leopards) portraits, but fine for animalscapes. I am looking forward to playing with the new 200-500mm, when I get hold of it.
A few other shots from the canoe (same morning):
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80-400 VR is perfect for a canoe. On a full frame camera, it is a little short for animal (e.g. tigers and leopards) portraits, but fine for animalscapes. I am looking forward to playing with the new 200-500mm, when I get hold of it.
A few other shots from the canoe (same morning):
Nilanjan,
I really like them. Out of the ordinary and the mist and setting makes the quite special. Where were you able to use a Canoe, Kabini area? The 80-400 afs makes a great general wildlife lens and seems great/manageable for a Canoe
Many thanks for posting
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Tom
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nilanjanray
Leading Member
Thanks Steve. When the light is right, any subject looks good.
Btw, the photos are appearing too bright and less contrasty when I view them on DPR. Hmmm.
Btw, the photos are appearing too bright and less contrasty when I view them on DPR. Hmmm.
Bill Dewey
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all learn. I saw his response to the OP as well, and I could not agree more. The OP's images convey "real". There is no doubt these are not posed, much like you would see in more photo-journalistic images. To me it is refreshing to see the OP post such realism, and just as refreshing to see the comment by yray. Perhaps yray could have been a bit more specific in explanation, but I sure "got it".
Then again, I could be wrong .... Nah, that can't happen ;-)
To the OP, super job, I'll leave a better reply directly.
Bill Dewey
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Bill Dewey
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You have now added yet another place to my Bucket List, a place I had never thought of before. Do you realize how long my Bucket List is now? I fear that if I live to 300 I won't get to all of them. And the cost, oh my, I'll have to work to 250 to afford it all, and then the list will be longer yet :-D
And all of this, over a bunch of old wild boars.
Sheesh, what the heck am I going to do when I see your Tigers????????
And all of this, over a bunch of old wild boars.
Sheesh, what the heck am I going to do when I see your Tigers????????
nilanjanray
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Thanks Bill. Glad you liked the photos.
Re tigers...sigh. My favourite animal, there is nothing like it in the forests IMO. I can't do without at least one trip a year to get my tiger fix.
Here is one taken with the D7100, at a different national park, one of my favourite.
You should do a trip to India sometime and meet these big cats. Need a little luck though
Young tigress, Kanha National Park
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Re tigers...sigh. My favourite animal, there is nothing like it in the forests IMO. I can't do without at least one trip a year to get my tiger fix.
Here is one taken with the D7100, at a different national park, one of my favourite.
You should do a trip to India sometime and meet these big cats. Need a little luck though
Young tigress, Kanha National Park
--You have now added yet another place to my Bucket List, a place I had never thought of before. Do you realize how long my Bucket List is now? I fear that if I live to 300 I won't get to all of them. And the cost, oh my, I'll have to work to 250 to afford it all, and then the list will be longer yet :-D
And all of this, over a bunch of old wild boars.
Sheesh, what the heck am I going to do when I see your Tigers????????
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Bill Dewey
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Bill Dewey
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You did this on purpose. Do you work for the Tourism Bureau or something??????
Africa, Galapagos, Antarctica, Australia, India, Alaska ... and I haven't even gotten hardly started. Oh, how could I forget Costa Rica, Brazil ....... You get the drift.
I like the Tiger, a lot.
Africa, Galapagos, Antarctica, Australia, India, Alaska ... and I haven't even gotten hardly started. Oh, how could I forget Costa Rica, Brazil ....... You get the drift.
I like the Tiger, a lot.
Thanks for doing the speaking and thinking for him. Yray is clearly a man of few words (and fewer still that make sense) and can't be troubled to elaborate on or operationalize his subjectivity.
To me, these photos are no more or less contrived than most others in a similar vein. I have no idea what kinds of wildlife images you two have been looking at, but the bell-curve for most of the ones I see is centered on fairly realistic, non-posed images--much like these.
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