Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don't have to have a big enlargement to have a great photo. I believe it was Brooks Jensen of LensWork who wrote something I read in the last year or two about what he thought was a silly current "fetish" for big prints. I *love* this one. It has atmosphere, nuance, hints at a story or a statement of some kind. Ok, maybe I don't have the right words, but this one is worth a thousand "sharp pics of hummingbirds" kinds of shots, IMHO. Great photo. HCB - "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." :-) Scott Douglas Herr wrote: >on 2/25/06 5:32 AM, Don Dory at don.dory@gmail.com wrote: > > > >>Doug, >>Two points or so. First, this is a wonderful shot at 72dpi. Second, it is >>good to know that you are human too and require a tripod with an 800mm >>lens. >> >> > >at 1/15 sec hand-held would be pushing my luck a bit ;-) > > > >> Third, I suspect with some PS sharpening tricks this could in fact be >>made into a reasonably sharp image at 11X14, the feathers and bars provide >>edges that can be enhanced pretty easily with any artifacts buried in the >>feather detail. >> >> > >I'd like to see what can be done. I've uploaded a 100% crop of the owl's >face to http://www.wildlightphoto.com/temp/leow01crop.jpg. The file will be >here for only a few days. This file is level 10 .jpg, no PS work other than >color corrections and dust spotting. > > > >>>Without further ado, my Long-eared Owl photo: >>> >>>http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/leow01.html >>> >>>Hardware, etc: Leicaflex SL2, 560mm f/6.8 Telyt, 1.4x APO-Extender-R, >>>Provia >>>400F film. Exposure was probably 1/15 sec with mirror pre-release. >>> >>> > >-- >Doug Herr >Birdman of Sacramento >http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)