Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My popup flash did save my but big-time in a headshot I did this week. This particularly pop up flash I think is a bit better as well. Pop's up further away from the lens evil axis. And might be a bit more powerful. I just think when you run out of light you run out of light. And I was shooting with an 85 1.8 AF. Which with a full frame axis reminded me of a lens just like an 85 1.8! Nope I don't think flash is dead. Its a light. And its available. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:24:03 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Friday Night CPW City Flower > > Cool ! It's not a camera you've bought, it's a cat - can see in the dark > Must purr in your hands ;-) > > Ph back in Metz, which means Metz the city, not the flash > manufacturer ;-) > > > Le 21 nov. 10 ? 23:14, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : > >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/101119_194235.jpg.html >> >> Friday night a few nights ago I was walking down Central Park West >> by the >> Planetarium in the early evening with my 50mm f1.8 on my new D700 >> still >> getting used to my new camera and new format which for me is really >> a new >> lease on life. >> >> "City tree's just seem to find out early" Seems to be the ongoing >> theme as I >> don't pass flowers any more since this Lug Gallery started for me >> without >> clicking one if they are at all interesting. I didn't shoot them much >> before. My loss. Flowers out of context. Flowers lost and alone. I'm >> liking >> stuff like that now. >> I just loaded this on to my laptop and its really grabbing me so >> here it is. >> Normally I like to see it a few weeks later and then know its good. >> >> >> I'm at Aperture priority 1/80 s at f/2.8 mode. >> When my camera meter system needs more than a 80th of a second the >> iso goes >> up instead. And I'm stopped down one to f2.8 so sharpen up any focus >> or >> optical errors. In most my shooting over the years I've liked to >> stop down >> two. Which is what most schools I think tell you to do. I've done it >> anyway. >> And here this is night shooting. Where you'd think maybe you'd need >> go just >> have it wide open and be there. >> >> A big difference between shooting full frame now and cropped before >> is the >> shutter default I set it on now I usually get. Night shooting >> before I'd >> never get it. Unless I was shooting a bright shop window. I'd be in >> "aim and >> pray" mode most of the dark time. >> >> Now I do. And stopped down one or two. >> If you said this would be happening a couple of years ago I'd have >> called >> you liar. >> >> The punch line is the camera only asked for iso 3600. >> Way below its topped out setting of 6400 which I'm now often >> shooting at. >> Instead of a measly 1600 cropped. And 6400 now gives me much better >> results >> than my topped out 1600 in my deep dark cropped past. From which I >> will >> never return unless the camera is the size of a Rollei 35 and my >> honeymoon >> with my D700 is far from over. >> >> To me its interesting how it about does not look like a night >> picture but >> day. >> And the amazing variety of light sources making for all kinds of >> color casts >> and cross overs that you just don't get during the day; unless >> something is >> horribly wrong. It used to me that with film with exposures over a >> second >> you'd get all kinds of surprise colors from reciprocity failure of the >> various layers but they fixed that in the early 90's. And the digital >> sensors in the 2000's were fixed even better. I bet that phony >> software >> which imitates various films don't account for that. The kids who >> came up >> with the algorithms had no memory of those days. When night shooting >> meant >> all kinds of nifty surprises. >> >> >> >> Oh! CPW means Central Park West. >> Only real cool people know that. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > NO ARCHIVE > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information