Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "Barney Quinn" <bjq1@mac.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG : Friday flower - Scarlet Pimpernel a.k.a. ShepherdsWeatherglass > PS - I'd love to see this cropped a lot tighter to cut down on the > background. >> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2008/08142.htm >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Barney, It's a throwback to the days when I used to develop and print my own b&w. The degree of enlargement for a 35mm negative was so high that I always tried to hold on to as much of the negative as possible. It doesn't apply to that shot but old habits etc. :-) I also wanted to give a sense of how tiny the flower is. Almost all of the flowers I post are wild and as such tend to be on the small side to say the least, Scarlet Pimpernel is about 0.5 inch (14mm) across. Thanks for looking. --Graham