Hi Paul: Yep, that's my biggest regret of the shot: the teapot spout on the left. I was fighting with the tripod when framing, and I didn't get the horizon lines level, so I had to use the straighten line gizmo, which left me even less room on the left. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:25 AM Subject: Re: PESO Curios in the China Cabinet >I prefer the color by a wide margin. It's a nice pic of some interesting >pieces. My only bit of advice would be to avoid crops that leave an object >tangent to the edge of frame, like the teapot spout in this shot. And since >the teapot feels like a main focal point, I think it would be best were it >not cropped at all. > Good work. > Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Jan 27, 2008 9:43 PM, Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Everyone: >> > >> > Trying my hand at some still life and working some very old flood lamps >> > I >> > have. I only used one lamp mounted on a very wobbly tripod with an >> > umbrella. Camera tripod mounted. >> > >> > >> > Color: K10D/50mm Macro 2.8 @ 2 seconds at f11 >> > small >> > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886097 >> > >> > larger >> > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886097&size=lg >> > >> > >> > BW: K10D/50mm Macro 2.8 @ 2 seconds at f11 >> > >> > small >> > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886102 >> > >> > larger >> > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6886102&size=lg >> > >> > Any preferences? Color? BW? My husband prefers color, but I can't >> > decide. >> > Any suggestions on how to improve the BW? >> > >> > Cheers, Christine >> >> Definitely prefer the colour version. There's a timeless feel to this >> photo that I really like. Very understated, but evocative. >> >> I like it a lot. >> >> cheers, >> frank >> >> -- >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow >> the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

