Thanks for your comment Frank. I will take some more shots soon and use a fast 50mm lens and a monopod this time to avoid all the errors I see this shot. Glad you could ignore them and still enjoy it... greetings Markus
>>-----Original Message----- >>From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:49 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: PESO:lighting candles for my friends >> >> >>On 5/13/05, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> A complete different shot for me: >>> During my last visit to Dietikon, a small city near Zurich in >>Switzerland to >>> have a look a the flee market, I suddenly got a strong desire >>to visit the >>> catholic church St. Agathe. I light some candles for my dead friends and >>> animals too and after reflecting for some minutes, I took the >>Pentax SFXn >>> and shot handheld with the small Pentax A35-70mm zoom on Superia ISO 100 >>> film. It's slightly unsharp and I would have liked the crown of Maria >>> uncropped, but I still like the scene. >>> >>> The link: >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3360542&size=lg (83KB) >>> >>> comments welcome and please enjoy. >> >>I like it too, Markus. >> >>Simple, but rather poignant. Considering handheld with slowish film, >>it's sharp enough. Besides, the softness rather works with the >>subject matter anyway, IMHO. >> >>cheers, >>frank >> >>-- >>"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >>

