Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/16

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Subject: [Leica] flower man corner pan
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:14:09 -0400
References: <C86637FC.64821%mark@rabinergroup.com>

software these days can eliminate some of the need for wide angles or 
changing lenses

switching to manual helps maintain consistent frames, if that's what you're 
going for

ric




On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100713_202747.jpg.html
> 
> What's interesting to me about these pan or merge shots is how you're
> focusing at various parts of the image wide open and splicing them together
> and matching them up and in a single exposure of course you'd only get a
> single slice in focus. But with a merge or pan you get it all.  Or several.
> And you've optimized each segment for density and contrast as well. Color
> even.
> Another night flower shot this one and recent and with a guy in it. Its
> dangerous splicing people together and merging them as things can go
> horribly wrong.  Like when you're beaming sombody up and you blow a fuse.
> ... But this guy I don't think moved much; except breath. So his DNA stayed
> intact from all I can tell.
> 
> This contains 5 segments.  Each one shot wide open at f4. But the shutter
> varied between a 40th of a second and an 80th.
> The lens was a 55mm to 200mm cheap compact non VR nikon zoom.
> All shot at 55mm.
> When if first saw the metadata I though I'd shot it with the 55 macro. 
> Which
> is a 3.5.
> But now slow zooms are ok in pitch darkness in this digital day and age.
> At auto ISO 1600 and be there. Just a few blocks from my apartment in the
> upper west side of NY.
> 
> A blue man photo.
> 
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
> 
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