Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OOCH! OUCH! A stampede of wild horses? Mark, you are much more...daring than I thought! Dan (Home on the range, where the the beer and the cantaloupe stay....) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Friday FS- NOT!!! Thread change rant....ROWRLBAZZLE! > Dan Post wrote: > ><Snip> > > Now, since we are getting off THAT thread, can anybody PLEEZ tell me about > > HOW the heck to use a SUPER W-i-d-e lens? Relating some experiences and > > problems you've had would be quite informative! > > My shots look, well, sort of trite. I have gotten good enough to keep > > verticals from going all catty-wumpus, but I think I am missing something. > ><Snip> > > First fine a head or something interesting roughly the size of a bread box or a > little bigger. > Put it right in front of you not more than three feet away. > Any further and you've noticed what happens > it disappears. Gone. poof. by by. > Once you've found your very interesting foreground that you've climbed right up to. > Find and interesting background to go with it. > If its further away than 15 away it's texture; maybe pattern gone proof. > So don't let that disappear either. > So get your foreground and background both in focus which you can do with out > even stopping down all the way. > And don't forget you can hand hold the thing supposedly at a 21st of a second. > That's a 15th if you haven't had too much espresso. > Click > strong foreground in front of strong background > the formula for superwide shooting. > Or stand in the middle of a stampede of wild horses and zone focus! > You're bound to get some shots! > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon > USA > > the trick to superwide is don't let it disapper. > don't let things get too far away. >