[Leica] New offerings

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Buzz Hausner in near faint mode asked B. D. ! ;-)
Subject: RE: [Leica] New offerings


> Good God, B.D., what's happened to you?  Flower pictures?  You may want
> to spend a few days...weeks, perhaps...at that hospital over in
Belmont.<<<

Hi Buzz,
Yeah I was thinking that myself as it's totally out of character for the
"getting older guy." ;-) I mean flowers?

A quick way to put an end to this is to give him a very firm right to the
shoulder or smack to the side of the head critique! He may never want to do
a flower again. ;-)

B. D. mon ami, well we'll give you credit for giving it the old school
try...;-(       BUT!  Flowers are delicate sweet things and you have to
shoot them very carefully or they look like nothing, I was going to say
something else, you know the shi.. word! ;-)However it's May 1 and I wont.
So here goes. ;-)

Tulip 1/
This is the better of the two because when you shoot a single flower the
framing should be very full of the single flower with any others out of
focus and supporting the main in colour only. Or a supporting aspect of the
composition which is close here, however a wider aperture would probably
added to the out of focus aspect and separated the lead flower much better.

The lighting is pretty good because you're on a kind of "shadow side." And
that adds to the modelling aspect to enhance the flower detail. Like I said
this is the better of the two and you can immediately see why as soon as you
look at the second because it's such a lucie goosie few flowers in a very
loose composition.

Tulip 2/

When you shoot flowers this loose you require a ton of flowers in a massive
bed of flowers. Why?  Well then they don't have the distraction of two
windows in the background and their reflections for openers.

Then there's the single hit of sunlight on the green leaf at the lower right
bottom, a distracting blob of light. Not only that distraction, there's the
one at the bottom left  with the wood chips and small greenish garden flying
saucer. ;-)

These tend to draw the eyes away from where the potential of a picture is.

Right in the middle slightly left top, yep! A single flower beautifully
backlit where you needed to be like, maybe inches away with a macro and work
it for back-light through the petals. Trying to capture the iridescence of
light in the detail of the petals.

Or possibly a slightly full frame of the flower only shooting slightly from
the left and put the flower head against the wall for a background in case
you see some of it behind the flower, which would be a magnificently out of
focus soft blur.

So my friend? We still are, right? ;-) You can take it cause we all know
you're a mean as.. SOB ... well that's what some folks think. But I know
better, that in reality you are really a soft hearted pussy cat behind the
screen image. ;-)

So if those tulips are still available, shoot 'em again. ;-)

ted