Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan... Thank you for taking the time to comment. My responses are as follows: http://members.aol.com/lifeatfone/private/index.htm Joshua - Normally I don't like having a face obscured, but this one appealed to me because of the "decisive moment". I wasn't even sure I had gotten the image, because it was so fleeting in nature. Kids move *too* quickly! ;-) NDUse - This was just intended to be a technical exercise and an example to some of the other LUG members that have asked me off-list about using ND filters with the Noct. Now that I have the ability to meter through the lens, I will be taking more shots using ND filters where I feel them to be appropriate. I think the image also addresses questions some have had about the flare capabilities of the Noct and whether filters would visibly degrade the image. Riddy - We have untold numbers of photos of Riddy and Dawn. I'm always looking for a new way to capture them. Of the two shots I took that day, this is the better one, but I don't care for some of the grass around his muzzle. As far as shooting everything at f/1.0; I'm not, though I do tend to shoot as much as possible at the faster apertures. These are just some of the images I've taken in the past week or so and they happen to have shot wide open on the Noct. Questions back to the group at large: Are the images big enough on your screen? Do they load fast enough? What ways can the web navigation be improved? Good light! /Mitch Zeissler - -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Wajsman [mailto:belgiangator@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 8:29 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Mitch Zeissler's Noctilux PAW Hi Mitch, Some comments: Joshua: this is the best of the three. It is certainly a different pose. It would work better, however, if the boy's entire eye were visible. I realize that this easier said than done. NDUse: I must admit that this picture says nothing to me. An abstract study of a car or a motorcycle can be attractive, but then you want as much sharpness as possible. I do not think photographing at f1 was a good idea here (except as a technical exercise). Riddy: beautiful dog, and you did a great job of focusing on the eye. Here too, however, I think that the picture would have been better at a smaller aperture than f1 so you had more of the animal in focus. But I do understand the attraction of playing with a Noctilux and shooting at f1 no matter what...I used to own one of those beasts myself. Nathan