Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for your kind words Montie. This was one of those situations where it didn't go at all as planned. The evening before I made this one exposure Ann pointed out the subject to me when she discovered it had created a web between a porch wall and our grill. There was no light to speak of that evening. Ann asked me to "kill" it (she fears spiders). I replied, "Well I could destroy its new condominium and end its life and purpose on this earth. Or I could wait for the morning light to be right and make a lovely photograph." The next morning I went out on the porch and the early morning sunlight was peeking between clouds and grazing the web nicely. I turned around and walked upstairs to get the camera; and by the time I returned (under two minutes) to the subject the light was gone; complete and dense overcast; and the subject on a covered, aged cedar porch. I decided that I needed to "grab a shot" because by the time light became "ideal" the critter could be gone or dead or ?. I racked the 100 mm out to max magnification opened to 2.8, dialed in the correct exposure to 1/30th, took my "I am a tripod" on my knees stance, focused by swaying a minute amount back and forth; and bobbing up and down to rotate the plane a tad; and when I "saw" the photograph - squeezed off one shot. Chimped the screen to see if I "froze" anything - looked decent. Today - I worked it a minimal bit in Lightroom. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Montie Talbert wrote: > Seems to me this is a particularly well done photo, George. > > Lighting, exposure, crisp detail and excellent > color rendition (right up to the tiny yellow pupils in > front of the eyes), I'm curious as to how this was lit?? > > By design, I've done very little micro/macro/long FL, > just don't have the patience for working with DOFs measured > in mms or less :) Glad others on this list feel differently > as much of the macro imagery posted here is stunning!' > > Montie > > >> Many of us (image posters) seem to be > looking close these days > > Here's another macro > > <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=3217> > >> c&c always enjoyed > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information