Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No no no, the Miraba series is 75@1.4, the Shidara series is... F4? Don't know. And... I Gaussian Blur the background on the one mentioned. It does look better :-) At 01:35 AM 9/8/2006, you wrote: >I shall relook: no time at the moment, but I found the background >distracting on first pass: but if its the 75 at 1.4 I must have been >looking at the wrong images ;-) >Cheers >On 07/09/2006, at 20:39, Richard wrote: > >>Alastair, I always value your posts, but this one I have to say you >>may be off your rocker just a tad :-) First of all, have you looked >>at my "Miraba" series? Most at in fact 75 @ 1.4 so I know a little >>about DOF (although as Don critiqued, I could have focus on >>different eye some times), but anyway, while George and you are >>very good photographers, neither of the two pictures you showed are >>when the subjects are moving thousand miles per hour :-) Those >>Taiko players are dancing, running, shouting while playing taiko. >>If I use a larger aperture, I would have gotten... nothing, and >>what fun is that? :-) >> >>Well, not that I disagree with you per se, I suppose. I will try >>some more they are lethargic. Do you know these people (including >>the women) started each day at 5AM with 300 sit ups and 100 push >>ups? They are very, um, energetic... >> >>As for slow loading, it's my daughter AND my wife bit-torrenting >>anime. Grrr.... sucking up all the bandwidth.. >> >>At 02:48 AM 9/7/2006, Alastair Firkin wrote: >> >>>Slow loading will always inhibit review: there are so many images on >>>the LUG to get through and so little time. BUT these images are fine >>>and fun and captivating BUT in many of them, the large DOF means so >>>much is in focus, that you have a "confused" image. George's image: >>> >>>>http://www.imagist.com/paw_06 >>> >>>gives you a "pop" that Leica glass with its fast lenes and shallow >>>DOF can achieve. This is one of the reasons I find the Noctilux so >>>attractive. Its images snap on the subject and gently fade the rest. >>>This is one reason I think this image works >>> >>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Selected- offerings/ >>>circus004.jpg.html >>> >>>Cheers >>> >>>On 07/09/2006, at 4:32, Philippe Orlent wrote: >>> >>>>Op 6-sep-06, om 01:01 heeft Richard het volgende geschreven: >>>> >>>>>So no one likes my photo? May be as usual, I posted too many pics? >>>>> >>>>>Anyway, I really like the lighting on this one: >>>>>http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=7775 >>>>> >>>>>At 04:58 PM 9/4/2006, Richard wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3189 >>>>>> >>>>>>We went to a double taiko workshop with this fairly new fantastic >>>>>>taiko group from Japan called Shidara (www.shidara.co.jp/ >>>>>> >>>>> eshidara). Most of these are some of the pictures from the >>>>>>performances they did during the workshop. They have incredible >>>>>>amount of energy and I hope I have captured some of their joy and >>>>>>love of the arts. >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >>// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, >>please use richard at imagecraft.com) >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)