Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/26
[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