Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks B.D. Point taken. >Hey, Richard - I really like these - and I am not a macro kind of guy. >Wonderful colors, and there's a great feel to them (whatever that means ;-) >) If I have one criticism, suggestion, it's that I would definitely include >the entire leaf stem in the single leaf shots, even if it means backing off >a bit from the subject. I think that they'd compositionally be more complete >that way. > >B. D. > > >On 10/22/06 10:14 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Thanks Jim. >> >>> Richard, >>> >>> You accomplished two things that I did not when I tried to capture >>> the leaves on our red maple. You got them in focus and with a clean >>> background. Congratulations! >>> >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard S. Taylor" >>> <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> >>> To: <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 8:04 PM >>> Subject: [Leica] COLORS OF FALL >>> >>>> Decided to do Fall colors leaf-by-leaf this year. I learned two >>>> things in the process: 1) There are an awful alot of leaves out >>>> there. 2) There are no perfect leaves. Trying to select from >>>> among the apparently millions under every tree was a tedious >>>> process. Nevertheless, the colors are glorious. >>>> >>>> There are six pictures in this album: >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/COLORS+OF+FALL/ >>>> >>>> All Ricoh GRD, Macro Mode, Manual Exposure, ISO 100 or 200. The >>>> GRD lens softens a bit at f2.4 so I generally shot at f3.0 or >>>> smaller. These were all handheld at 1/60th to 1/125th. No >>>> Photoshopping except for slight crops and minor Level adjustments. >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Dick >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick