Just got back last night after spending the week down in North Carolina - shopping for a vacation cabin like the one our friends have. Had a long motorcycle ride back yesterday, starting at 7:00 a.m. around 45 degrees F and into the 90's by afternoon. Then I got up and ran 15 miles in the heat and humidity this morning so I'm pretty shagged out now (after a long squawk, as they say...)
Anyway, I did get a little photography done - mostly fungus macros but I wanted to share this flower shot because I like the "look" of it even though I'm not sure how it came about. There's a sort of "glassy" look to the background which I can't explain, and some of the background elements look almost doubled, as if there was a strong camera shake during a long exposure, but the foreground elements don't show it. (The exposure was 1/125 @ f/4.0, tripod-mounted.) There's also a sort of halo effect around some petals, almost as if some weird excessive sharpening had been applied. I took several shots of this group of flowers and they all looked similar. Must have been something to do with the lighting because other shots with the same equipment (FA*80-200/2.8 and Pentax T132 achromatic diopter) looked normal - even other shots of this kind of flower. http://www.robertstech.com/gallery/temp.htm -- 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.
