Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I shall relook: no time at the moment, but I found the background distracting on first pass: but if its the 75 at 1.4 I must have been looking at the wrong images ;-) Cheers On 07/09/2006, at 20:39, Richard wrote: > Alastair, I always value your posts, but this one I have to say you > may be off your rocker just a tad :-) First of all, have you looked > at my "Miraba" series? Most at in fact 75 @ 1.4 so I know a little > about DOF (although as Don critiqued, I could have focus on > different eye some times), but anyway, while George and you are > very good photographers, neither of the two pictures you showed are > when the subjects are moving thousand miles per hour :-) Those > Taiko players are dancing, running, shouting while playing taiko. > If I use a larger aperture, I would have gotten... nothing, and > what fun is that? :-) > > Well, not that I disagree with you per se, I suppose. I will try > some more they are lethargic. Do you know these people (including > the women) started each day at 5AM with 300 sit ups and 100 push > ups? They are very, um, energetic... > > As for slow loading, it's my daughter AND my wife bit-torrenting > anime. Grrr.... sucking up all the bandwidth.. > > At 02:48 AM 9/7/2006, Alastair Firkin wrote: > >> Slow loading will always inhibit review: there are so many images on >> the LUG to get through and so little time. BUT these images are fine >> and fun and captivating BUT in many of them, the large DOF means so >> much is in focus, that you have a "confused" image. George's image: >> >>> http://www.imagist.com/paw_06 >> >> gives you a "pop" that Leica glass with its fast lenes and shallow >> DOF can achieve. This is one of the reasons I find the Noctilux so >> attractive. Its images snap on the subject and gently fade the rest. >> This is one reason I think this image works >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Selected- >> offerings/ circus004.jpg.html >> >> Cheers >> >> On 07/09/2006, at 4:32, Philippe Orlent wrote: >> >>> Op 6-sep-06, om 01:01 heeft Richard het volgende geschreven: >>> >>>> So no one likes my photo? May be as usual, I posted too many pics? >>>> >>>> Anyway, I really like the lighting on this one: >>>> http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=7775 >>>> >>>> At 04:58 PM 9/4/2006, Richard wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3189 >>>>> >>>>> We went to a double taiko workshop with this fairly new fantastic >>>>> taiko group from Japan called Shidara (www.shidara.co.jp/ >>>>> eshidara). Most of these are some of the pictures from the >>>>> performances they did during the workshop. They have incredible >>>>> amount of energy and I hope I have captured some of their joy and >>>>> love of the arts. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information