[Leica] Fossils and Minerals - Learning Slowly but Surely

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)]

Douglas - In looking at these I found myself fascinated by the 
objects; not the photographs, which to my mind means the pictures are 
a real success.  The only minor comment I would make is that in the 
photograph of the quartz crystal, I think the top of the crystal 
could have stood out more from the rock behind it.

I looked back through some of your earlier photos, too.  The swan is 
gorgeous: all well-modelled white and pale yellow against the solid 
black water.

In the photo of the brass band, and this may just be my way of 
seeing, I would have gotten myself square to the tubas and cropped 
the photo to three of them and three of the players with the top of 
the photo just above the heads of the players.  This close cropping 
is something I picked up from comments  made by Ted and others at the 
Hyannis meeting and from comments on some of the photos I posted 
recently.  Sometimes it seems it's almost impossible to crop too 
tightly.

Your self portrait in the dome is fun.  I've taken quite a few 
pictures of that kind myself, with varying success.  This is a good 
example of a successful one.

Nice pictures!



>Over the weekend I tried a few of the suggestions and a lot of the 
>advice you all so kindly posted. Here a few of the results.
>Comments and criticism more than welcome, I thrive on it.
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Ammo_copy_filtered
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Ammonitecopy_filtered_copy
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/PY2_copy_filtered
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Quartz_copy_filtered
>
>Taken with a Leica Macro-Elmarit 100/4 at f22 on a Canon EOS 300D (DSLR)
>Thanks again
>Douglas
>
>
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Regards,

Dick
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