Lovely shot, with some strange effects, as you say. The photo is amazingly sharp, but it is with the 80-200.:-0
Hope you find a nice spot. I'm sure anywere in that are is lovely. Dave On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- 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.
