Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] Hope
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:43:13 -0500
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Thanks for your kind words Montie.

This was one of those situations where it didn't go at all as planned.
The evening before I made this one exposure
Ann pointed out the subject to me when she discovered it
had created a web between a porch wall and our grill.
There was no light to speak of that evening.
Ann asked me to "kill" it (she fears spiders).
I replied, "Well I could destroy its new condominium
and end its life and purpose on this earth. 
Or I could wait for the morning light to be right and make a lovely 
photograph."
The next morning I went out on the porch
and the early morning sunlight was peeking between clouds and grazing the 
web nicely.
I turned around and walked upstairs to get the camera;
and by the time I returned (under two minutes) to the subject
the light was gone; complete and dense overcast;
and the subject on a covered, aged cedar porch.

I decided that I needed to "grab a shot"
because by the time light became "ideal"
the critter could be gone or dead or ?.

I racked the 100 mm out to max magnification
opened to 2.8, dialed in the correct exposure to 1/30th,
took my "I am a tripod" on my knees stance,
focused by swaying a minute amount back and forth;
and bobbing up and down to rotate the plane a tad;
and when I "saw" the photograph - squeezed off one shot.
Chimped the screen to see if I "froze" anything - looked decent.
Today - I worked it a minimal bit in Lightroom.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Montie Talbert wrote:

> Seems to me this is a particularly well done photo, George.
> 
> Lighting, exposure, crisp detail and excellent 
> color rendition (right up to the tiny yellow pupils in 
> front of the eyes), I'm curious as to how this was lit??
> 
> By design, I've done very little micro/macro/long FL,
> just don't have the patience for working with DOFs measured 
> in mms or less :)  Glad others on this list feel differently
> as much of the macro imagery posted here is stunning!'
> 
> Montie
> 
> 
>> Many of us (image posters) seem to be
> looking close these days
> 
> Here's another macro
> 
> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=3217>
> 
>> c&c always enjoyed
> 
> 
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