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Two macro shots from my end
A very cooperative Spot Billed Pelican at Anamalaichery over the weekend. It was my first visit to the place and a very satisfying one with some good Greater Flamingo sightings.

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A very cooperative Spot Billed Pelican at Anamalaichery over the weekend. It was my first visit to the place and a very satisfying one with some good Greater Flamingo sightings. Attachment 997828 |
I am a fan of your pics, man! I like the composition and sharpness in your pics. Which lens and body did you use? I hope I would be able to be as good as you !
Extracting out all the dynamic range from a raw file

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Extracting out all the dynamic range from a raw file |
Excellent Clevermax. Which is the place? Looks eerily familiar.
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Excellent Clevermax. Which is the place? Looks eerily familiar. |
Thanks! This is shot from the top of a rock named "Madavoorpara" near Trivandrum. You can see Arabian sea from atop on a clear sky day. (visible in the picture above)
This is the place.
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I am a fan of your pics, man! I like the composition and sharpness in your pics. Which lens and body did you use? I hope I would be able to be as good as you ! |
Thanks, I'm humbled :)
I was using a Canon 1D Mark IV with a Canon 600mm F4 IS + 1.4x TC for this trip.
Here's the one and only "better" shot of the juvenile greater flamingo which was the highlight of the trip.

@Clevermax
Oh ok. There is a similar hillock called rakshasapara at my native, Tiruvilwamala in trichur. One of the views from top is quite similar, though no sea is visible.
@amolpol
Great shot of the pelican there!
@clevermax
Nice one as always.
The fall colors settling in.
Regards,
TG.
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Extracting out all the dynamic range from a raw file |
Nice picture!!
I understand this now, adjusting levels in shadow and highlights separately. you have any comparison if the same picture taken at 5 stops and merged would yield a 2EV better range ?
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@amolpol
The fall colors settling in.
Regards,
TG. |
Nice picture!!, Can you pls share the exposure details.
@groom
Thanks.
Here's the Exif for that shot:
Camera NIKON D800
Lens 20mm f 2.8 Manual
Focal Length 20mm
Shutter Speed 10 sec
Aperture f/22
ISO/Film 50
Another one of the sun just peeping through the canopies.

Regards,
TG.
Just a casual shot of a cormorant sunning its wings on the top of a tree, shot with a Sony H3.
But then I found this poem to go with the picture...
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I dreamed, and dreamed;
Of wings I dreamed; of wings.
I dreamed of wings;
Soft-feathered things, --- wings.
I dreamed of wings, up-lifting things,
To pull me up to where my soul
Could wander free;
Above the winds, on wings;
Wings to set me free,
To lift me into unremembering,
To waft me from the days of things
Into the world of wings.
I dreamed of what I must possess -
And cannot have.
I dreamed of wings.
~ P. Roy Brammell
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