I don't suppose you took any with the diopter off. It is rather strange looking - almost like reflections and a bit of the effect of a soft focus lens.
-- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, July 19, 2008, 4:15:35 PM, you wrote: MR> Just got back last night after spending the week down in North Carolina MR> - shopping for a vacation cabin like the one our friends have. Had a MR> long motorcycle ride back yesterday, starting at 7:00 a.m. around 45 MR> degrees F and into the 90's by afternoon. Then I got up and ran 15 miles MR> in the heat and humidity this morning so I'm pretty shagged out now MR> (after a long squawk, as they say...) MR> Anyway, I did get a little photography done - mostly fungus macros but I MR> wanted to share this flower shot because I like the "look" of it even MR> though I'm not sure how it came about. There's a sort of "glassy" look MR> to the background which I can't explain, and some of the background MR> elements look almost doubled, as if there was a strong camera shake MR> during a long exposure, but the foreground elements don't show it. (The MR> exposure was 1/125 @ f/4.0, tripod-mounted.) There's also a sort of halo MR> effect around some petals, almost as if some weird excessive sharpening MR> had been applied. I took several shots of this group of flowers and they MR> all looked similar. Must have been something to do with the lighting MR> because other shots with the same equipment (FA*80-200/2.8 and Pentax MR> T132 achromatic diopter) looked normal - even other shots of this kind MR> of flower. MR> 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.
