Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] COLORS OF FALL
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Mon Oct 23 07:56:45 2006
References: <C161A0F3.17533%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

Thanks B.D.  Point taken.

>Hey, Richard - I really like these - and I am not a macro kind of guy.
>Wonderful colors, and there's a great feel to them (whatever that means ;-)
>) If I have one criticism, suggestion, it's that I would definitely include
>the entire leaf stem in the single leaf shots, even if it means backing off
>a bit from the subject. I think that they'd compositionally be more complete
>that way.
>
>B. D.
>
>
>On 10/22/06 10:14 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks Jim.
>>
>>>  Richard,
>>>
>>>  You accomplished two things that I did not when I tried to capture
>>>  the leaves on our red maple.  You got them in focus and with a clean
>>>  background. Congratulations!
>>>
>>>  Jim Nichols
>>>  Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard S. Taylor"
>>>  <r.s.taylor@comcast.net>
>>>  To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>  Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 8:04 PM
>>>  Subject: [Leica] COLORS OF FALL
>>>
>>>>  Decided to do Fall colors leaf-by-leaf this year.  I learned two
>>>>  things in the process:  1)  There are an awful alot of leaves out
>>>>  there. 2)  There are no perfect leaves.  Trying to select from
>>>>  among the apparently millions under every tree was a tedious
>>>>  process. Nevertheless, the colors are glorious.
>>>>
>>>>  There are six pictures in this album:
>>>>
>>>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/COLORS+OF+FALL/
>>>>
>>>>  All Ricoh GRD, Macro Mode, Manual Exposure, ISO 100 or 200.  The
>>>>  GRD lens softens a bit at f2.4 so I generally shot at f3.0 or
>>>>  smaller. These were all handheld at 1/60th to 1/125th.  No
>>>>  Photoshopping except for slight crops and minor Level adjustments.
>>>>  --
>>>>  Regards,
>>>>
>>>>  Dick
>>>>
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-- 
Regards,

Dick

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