Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I would have squashed it on general principles, Ann or not. Especially if I needed to grill something. Maybe next time I'll wait and look closer, unless of course it is a fiddleback. Always much more to learn, and great photo also. Ken Carney On 8/3/2010 8:43 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >