Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Nathan and Jim. I learned something from doing the cat portrait. I had taken two shots and the one I discarded had the head at a bad angle. But it also wasn't sharp. What I learned was that, when shooting at 1/30, I should put the camera on "continuous" and take three frames. This reminds me of when I went paranoid sixty years ago. This was during WWII when cameras were hard to find. I found a little Wirgin (sp?) camera at Central Photo in Chicago. I took a bunch of Kodachromes in a friends garden and proudly took the slides into the lab where I worked. A colleague looked at the slides with a 20X magnifier and pronounced: "Your camera's no good; these aren't sharp. Then, as he got to the end of the box, he said: "Hey, this one's sharp." Well, that last shot was taken as the sun was going down, and I used a tripod. All the shots were taken at 1/100. This upset me so much that for years after, I wouldn't take a hand-held shot at exposures longer than 1/250. >Well done with the kitty!!! > >Cheers, >Nathan > >Nathan Wajsman >Alicante, Spain >http://www.frozenlight.eu >http://www.greatpix.eu >http://www.nathanfoto.com >PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > >YNWA > > > >On Nov 7, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > > > I haven't posted any pictures for a while, so though it's neither >Caturday nor Friday, I'm throwing in a couple. > > > > Re the cat: I've been trying for months to get a portrait of him >that shows his eye color. If he isn't facing a source of light such >as a window, the color just doesn't show. And, of course, there's >the usual cat problem of either sleeping or being constant motion. >And, finally, if you aim a camera at them, they walk towards it. > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Ming+Portrait.jpg.html > > > > The flower ain't anything to brag about. It's just that the shot >has been sitting around for a while and at least is sharp. > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Impatiens.jpg.html > > -- > > Herbert Kanner > > kanner at acm.org > > 650-326-8204 > > > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.