Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand I like them all - very old masterish indeed - but I'm really taken with "Engrossed" with "Cinematic" a close second. Well done. I'll have to go in and give one of those Z8s a try. I see that battery life is marked down. What do you think? Douglas On 22/06/2023 03:58, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > I had gone to the Flower Bazaar in Parrys in Chennai to test drive the > newly released Nikon Z8 with the Nikkor Z24-70mm f2.8S lens. It is a tough > place to photograph, as the shops have three sources of light - LED, > Tungsten and Daylight with totally different colour characteristics, as > well as colours bouncing off the flowers, which also leads to very harsh > contrast. > > In other words, the ideal place to test out new equipment! > > This was my first visit in four years (thanks to the Covid shutdowns) to > this overcrowded, busy market, which we used to visit every month or two in > the days before the pandemic struck. I did an exposure tweak for this > series - I shot in Highlight Priority mode with an exposure compensation of > +1.7 to bring out detail in the faces in the scene. > > Cinematic: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-023-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html > > Conversation: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-052-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html > > Engrossed: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-067-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html > > Environmental Portrait: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-079-Edit.jpg.html > > Relaxed: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-085-Enhanced-NR-EditBW.jpg.html > > Shadow Side Portrait: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-076-Enhanced-NR-Edit.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