I was looking through some of my recent tiger lilly photos, trying
to decide which ones to get enlarged, and how large, when I realized
what photo of a lilly I want:
I want a wall-sized (meters on a side -- 3mx4m or larger) macro shot
staring down into the center of an orange tiger lilly with enough depth
of field that the (stamens?) projecting into the foreground are sharp,
large enough that when you stand in front of it, you'll feel as though
you're about to fall in. _Ideally_ I'd like to take the photo myself,
but that's not as important as _having_ it.
Now the question is: how would I go about getting this? That's a
lot of DOF to ask for at that magnification (and then there's the
question of whether I could get it sharp enough in 35mm for that
enlargement). How feasible would this shot be in MF? LF?
Somehow I think it's going to be a long time before I have that
photo. OTOH, it's more likely to happen than the painting that's
been stuck in my head for twenty years that I can't paint. (Sometimes
the muse is very cruel.)
-- Glenn, writing a new
jig today.
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