Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My response comes from a different tact. During the Thanksgiving Holidays my daughter looked much like your son as she was finishing up her grad school applications. So the pictures I posted were the happy cooking times, but in between she was proofing application essays for her and her hon. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:20 AM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote: > Ah, with the rangefinder, you always crop a bit ;-) and the 18mpix allows > lots of it in my experience ;-) > > > Apart from not focussing that close ;-) > > > > john > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> > >> Wow that is tight cropping ;-) I love the intimacy of the first image, > >> the > >> second is very good, but I think you have 'centered' the pen in order to > >> focus > >> on it, and I would love to see another cropping of the image to > >> eliminate the > >> amount of dead space bottom left. I suspect you would not do this with > >> the > >> Rangefinder, where composition is so easy after you have 'struggled' to > >> focus. I reckon a Monochrome with the nocti would handle this ;-) > >> > >> Alastair > >> > >> > My son is 23 and in his last year of the Masters programme in > >> > Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bath. He is spending his > >> > Christmas break with us here in Alicante, but he has been putting in > >> > at least 3-4 hours a day doing this, including on the last day of the > >> year: > >> > > >> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A- > >> Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2299239620& > >> > k=BMv22wQ&lb=1&s=O > >> > > >> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A- > >> Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2299239724& > >> > k=cQmKrkc&lb=1&s=O > >> > > >> > I am very proud of him. > >> > > >> > On a technical note: these images were taken at ISO 6400 and a > >> > relatively wide aperture with a 100mm macro lens. Oh how I wish that > >> > my Leicas could do something similar at such ISO speeds. When the > >> > light is good, the Leica glass blows anything else away; but when it > >> > is dark(ish), the inferior sensors let down those magnificent lenses. > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com