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Subject: Re: [Leica] a few more pics
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:47:23 -0400
References: <F200SYmxi3Clp38NdTy0000120d@hotmail.com>

Oliver, congratulations on going out and pushing the shutter release.  I
think that the images shown have weaknesses that have less to do with using
the DOF preview and more to do with you slowing down a little and thinking
about what you want to show.  For example:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=714431

This is an image that is less a flower and more an abstract.  Look at the
image and imagine it cropped as a strong horizontal eliminating the stamen
and what is above the blossom.  Now you have a strong abstract of form and
color.

Or, this image: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=714442

I think all it needs is a slight re-framing to move the mass of the flower
up and to the right some.  This takes advantage of the diagonal of the stem
and moves the mass of the image a little higher which I think would be more
interesting.  Add a little dew and some cross lighting and this would be a
very nice shot indeed.

This one: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=714448&size=lg
demonstrates a good eye for the light striking the flower but is probably
shot too wide if your intention is an "art" shot.  As a record shot it does
quite well.  Look at the image and imagine a vertical with the right edge
just past the right side of the "sex organs"and the left just at the tip of
the petals on the left.  Now the diagonal lighting makes a great shot.

You are more than 90 percent there, slow down a bit and try more angles of
each shot.  While you are doing that, try different apertures and very soon
you will know what your lens will do at a variety of apertures and thus will
have more tools at your disposal.

Don
dorysrus@miondspring.com

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