Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, I love the colors and tulips in general. In my opinion, the DOF is too shallow for the subject. I have no fault with the Bokeh, but feel that the full image would have been better if closed down a stop or two. Thanks for posting. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: [Leica] IMG: Stand of Tulips with M8 & 35 Sumicron ASPH >I have a favorite bit of garden down the street from me about a mile. > The owners of this corner do wonderful things over the course of the > year some of which I've posted here in the past. > > Saturday I had the M8 and my camera bag so I stopped on the way back > from the grocery store and worked the site. > > This one is with a 35mm sumicron, shot wide open. I had this > impressionistic idea when I sat down, maybe it's that image of poppy > fields. I also tried a Noctilux but to shoot wide open I'd have had to > use a neutral density filter and I don't have one to fit the Noct - > although now I'm going to invest in one! I also shot with a 90mm which > gave informative results but nothing I wanted to post. Learning to use > these will be fun. > > I bought this lens from a forum member who didn't like the bokah but I > think it works here... > > <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/L1000671-Edit.jpg> > > Processed in the new Lightroom 1.0 and PS3 (although I'm deleting that > one from my desktop system because it REALLY screws things up and for > some reason Lightroom won't let me open any other helper application > for image editing than PS3...shame on that puppy! I'll write a bug > report to Adobe...yada yada yada). > > Anyway - your thoughts would be appreciated. > > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >