Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aram Langhans wrote: > Fooled around in the neighbor's yard down here and found an iris. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/spr09/fl/iris-1313.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/bnddfe > > This one was a view I had never tried before. I think it is one of my best > flower shots ever. > > This first one is softened by putting the clarity in Lightroom well into > the > negatives. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/spr09/fl/iris-1322.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/cr7sey > > And this one has the clarity more traditionally in the positives. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/spr09/fl/iris-1321.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/crgwao > > Which do you like better? View large..... > > All taken with Rebel XTi and 100/2.8 APO. > > Comment and criticism welcome. > > Aram > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > 1313 is the better as it is a more original abstract and well exposed, the next two are underexposed and not "labial" enough to give a mapplethorpe sexuality to the flower, 0912 is very nice, that one's special because of the backlighting but should have moved to remove the distraction in the background moving 1 cm to the left would have done it. All the yellow hillside pictures don't work for me because there's never going to be something that's not distracting, so do something different, set a slow shutter speed, ND filter if necessary and shake the camera about to get van gogh swirls. Just my opinion. Philip.