Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I shoot most of my flowers your way. Nice. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:17 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hello Again, > On the way down from the midlevels I walked through the botanical gardens > and stopped in at the Orchid green house. > There were two serious young men inside with tripods and long Nikon zoom > lenses taking studies of the orchids. They would set up the tripods and > cameras and then zoom in and out to frame the flowers. I was there with my > D700 and only the 28 Elmarit and 90 Summicron - so I set the lens in use at > its minimum focus distance and rocked back and forth to get sharp focus and > then stopped down to increase depth of field. The zoomers didn't think much > of this technique and ignored me but I liked the results. > > Please see for yourselves: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2010_001/Purple28W.jpg.html > > http://tinyurl.com/24m9edd > > First with the 28 Elmarit > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2010_001/Purple90W.jpg.html > > http://tinyurl.com/2a4t2jb > > And then the same bunch of orchids with the 90 Summicron. > > Please look at them large - C & C always welcome > > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA