Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, I absolutely do agree with you. My secret motto is: "Death to Cokin's Creative Filters" :-) Now Photoshop... That's another story ;-) Philippe Op 26-jul-06, om 19:34 heeft Ted Grant het volgende geschreven: > Philippe Orlent offered: > Subject: Re: [Leica] FLOWERS -believe it! ;-) > >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album469/ >>> Leica_Gallery_flower_FLOWERS< > >> How I love the smell of vaseline in the morning :-) >> No, seriously, as was said before: painterly.<<<< > > Hi Philippe, > Nope no Vaseline at all. :-) Just plain old fashion using the > aperture to make an interesting photo.:-) > > When I acquire a new lens one of the first things I do is.... Shoot > something or sometime the same object using every aperture wide > open to fully stopped down. > > If you do not do something like this you have absolutely no idea > what a picture will ___ actually look like. __ Sure you know the > wider an aperture the shallower the depth of field/focus. But you > do not know "exactly what effect an image will look like" wide open > & focused at it's closest point. > > The opposite of course "what does an image look like stopped down > to it's smallest aperture at the closest point of focus?" > > Yep I suppose most people have a rough idea what it "should look > like." But that doesn't mean what it'll actually look like and what > benefits can be derived wide open or stopped right down when needed. > > And the flower picture effect is as simple as shooting wide open > because I had shot many frames over the years with the 80mm wide > open and knew what kind of effect was derived from shooting in this > manner. ERGO.... "what you see!" > > The soft "painterly" quality is strictly from the results of the > lens and point of focus. The soft glow is just the 80mm doing it's > thing wide open. Did I know it would look like that without test > frames many years ago and years of experience using it? Yep I knew > the glow effect would happen. It's knowing when to use it that counts. > > The only PS stuff is "auto levels, auto contrast and a slight crop > off the bottom." > > And no Vaseline! ;-) > > ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >