Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Happy Christmas and New Year everybody from East Anglia and a show of village church flowers. And glad to hear of Adam and Jan's escape: your Guardian Angel was busy that day. To continue the poetry theme, this stanza from John Betjemen's poem 'Christmas', introduces my latest LUG gallery, done with M8, Summicron 35 and Summilux 50: The holly in the windy hedge And round the Manor House the yew Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge, The altar, font and arch and pew, So that villagers can say 'The Church looks nice' on Christmas Day. the ledge, http://tinyurl.com/2zhayd the altar, http://tinyurl.com/2g82kd font http://tinyurl.com/2culry and pew http://tinyurl.com/28rngh and this one of the Christmas tree was inspired by Mark Pope's Aldbourne picture (I may have over-processed it) - using an old Elmarit 21 http://tinyurl.com/23y7jt This concludes my 'Year in Flowers' project. If anyone has the time to comment on individual pictures I would be grateful for advice. I think I am now fairly good at White Balance indoors, using a combination of Expodisc, Colour Balance Lens (as in LFI recently), colour chart, white card, and dead reckoning. I use a tripod, but wonder if I should use even longer exposures to allow smaller aperture and greater DoF, as a floral display can be 50cm from front to back, but I love shooting with larger apertures to get the best texture in the pictures. I know there are some excellent flower photographers on the LUG. Best wishes for 2008, and thanks for looking Matthew