Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Both are great, and I see the dangers connected with the second shot very clearly. The way I make this kind of image these days is to simply aim the SLR in the general direction and shoot--without lifting the camera to my eye. Doing this with a 17mm lens (multiply by 1.6 on the 20D) and autofocus pretty much ensure a decent image, although it invariably needs some cropping and rotating in Photoshop. Nathan feli wrote: > Two shots. > > http://tinyurl.com/dwxsy > > Getting the second shot was a little hairy... picture this. > > This image is uncropped. > > This woman's rather large husband was standing about 2 feet to her left. > > Try talking your way out of that one. > > "Well, you see I am an artist and your wife's uh,... flower...was > uh,... just glowing > in the sun and I just couldn't resist to... uh..." > > Thank god that M2 is well worn and recently had a CLA by Sherry... try > that with an SLR, > without ending up having to eat through a straw for a month. > 8-) > > > Feli > > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > > NO ARCHIVE > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com