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• quillo (5365)
• [2008-05-18 10:06]

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Hello friend Subhayan, very interesting the image of the blue bulls of Kanpur, is a good framing with the reflexes of the water, perhaps a little more of contrast in the composition would be better, in any case congratulations for your good work of fighter.

A greeting and happy day.

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• batalay (15798)
• [2008-06-05 7:28]
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Hello Subhayan,

This is one of the finest group portraits of a herd — but is it a type of antelope? I see that it is from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. I love the photo, especially with the bird seeming to walk on the shallow water, but would love to know more about the setting, and the occasion.

Warm regards. Thank you for your gracious words on my ancient shot double exposure of the moon. The Nikon F was of course a semi-automatic camera, and one had to open the back and wind the film in manually. Making sure to get the film in at just the right position (to the actual sprocket count) was a problem. I used a grease pencil to mark the position of the film when I put it into the camera before cranking manually. The second time around, I repeated the procedure, making sure of having the mark at the same place. Indeed, I even did triple and quadruple exposures, shooting the moon with different lenses — 300 mm, 600 mm, 1600 mm, etc. In the original photo you see, the full roll of 36 exposures had 10-15 successful shots, and quite a few "catastrophic collisions" of the moon with buildings.

War, regards.

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