hi Douglas thanks again for your time and advice. I 've been looking at your album online and find it very much inspiring. I will try to find my own style(s) and in that search your example will be very helpfull. I also agree that different glass has different character, and sharper is not always better. They are different tools that can lead to different results. So i also agree that the greatest fun will be the trial and error. I will send you my results as they come. Greetings from Belgium, Axel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 12:46 AM Subject: [LRflex] Re: MY first flower > Hallo Axel, > I think sharpness, and exposure, to some extent, depend on what you are > trying or intending to express, reveal or document - particularly with > flower pictures. > > Here are a selection of some of mine taken (and played around with in > Photoshop for weeks in some cases) over the past few years - from the > natural to almost surreal. > > A creamy, misty shot like this is quite romantic in its own way. This > one of Sweet Peas was shot naturally in the garden with an old Braun > Paxette lens attached to bellows, the mistiness comes from the old lens. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/album150/41_MG_9474.jpg.html > > Or you can add the misty look with processing like in this one > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/album150/Iris_1.jpg.html > > > But then again, you can do something like this with oversharpening, > overexposure and (quite) a bit of Photoshop if you want to try and > create some impact. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/album150/VR_3.jpg.html > > or like this, to take things to the absolute limits of realism: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/album150/White_Lily_MG_1089-Edit-3.jpg.html > > For me at least, the greatest fun has always been lots of trial and > error and trying out different lenses and processing sequences. > > Cheers > Douglas > > > > > > > On 04.02.2010 22:50, Axel Collier wrote: >> Hi >> thank you for your kind comments on the flower ;-) >> >> @ Douglas >> I like very much what you did with the glass bowl ! I will most certainly >> try the reflector-idea. ! >> @David >> a bit more light (as Douglas said also) it will be. I wonder : would that >> give a more sharp impression of the heart of the flower ? As in : more >> contrast = sharper picture ? I have the impression the picture should be >> even sharper, what do you think ? >> @Aram >> In fact i even underexposed -0.3, because they say the D300 overexposes a >> bit ... Wrong choice ... I will try what you suggested. >> Also i will remove the leave, that would be no problem at all. >> As for the D300s : i was afraid it woul not work well with the manual >> lenses, but the opposit is true. The view finder is ok, if you tell the >> camera the max aperture it will even give you matrix metering... And the iso >> capacities are amazing as well. Even more amazing is auto-iso for indoors >> photos. >> I prefer a natural background as well, but it is freezing outside, and i did >> not want to end the life of my orchid faster than necessary. I took a very >> nice picture of an orchid in the garden this summer with the angenieux and >> my R3, and it was so beautifull. It is on film, sorry can't show it to you >> ... >> I like the creamy look of the background. In fact, it was one of the main >> reasons why I wanted to adapt the angenieux to the nikon ... >> I hope i will send you all an even more beautifull orchid next time ;-) >> sorry for my poor english >> and thank you >> Axel >> >> > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/