[Leica] New offerings

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Flowers?! What the *_@#$ was I thinking? :-)

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Ted Grant
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 8:52 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] New offerings


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





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