Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]| doug kim showed and said: | Subject: [Leica] non-leica macro fun with flowers | | > i'm not a flowers kind of guy but had to rent a nikon D1X and a 110mm | macro | > for this gig. what fun!!! | > | > http://www.ricecracker.net/descanso/ | > | > all comments welcome and i promise to post some leica stuff next!<<<<<<<< | | Hi Doug, | One of the toughest shoots anyone can have who isn't a regular macro flower | shooter is just what you've done. | | Some of yours are very well done, others mediocre. No offence intended, as | you are not alone in shooting this and doing it not absolutely perfect, even | though the majority look very cool. Been there done it and I swear in the | view finder screen, everyone I shot was a million dollar flower shot. :-) | | We get a macro and we're inside the flowers and the colours are beautiful | and we get absolutely suckered by the colours, forms, shapes iridescence and | what's on the view finder screen as a " drop dead gorgeous" shot because we | don't shoot this stuff every day> Nor do we normally look at the world in | this fashion every day. | | Therefore we tend to shoot things that look cool, well we think they're | cool, when in real-time they're merely colour exposures of interesting | looking things that have no meaning to them compositionally nor design. Some | do of course, however for every great one there are ten so-so . | | OK they sort of look great, but it's being in focus at not quite the right | point in-relation to the main point of colour design or some other minor | failing. That when you really take the time to study each one you get real | hard nosed to what works and what doesn't.. | | But like I said some are smashingly good. Others, it's like, "So?" And it's | a tough call to sort them out because in this kind of photography it's in | the eye of the beholder that sorts out the magical ones from the not so | magical ones. | | for what it's worth. | | ted | Hello Doug, I dont know much about macro but think you should bin this one http://www.ricecracker.net/descanso/pages/DSC_0181.htm Why include it? best regards simon jessurun amsterdam