There was a fold in space-time right behind the foreground blossom, obviously.
Rick --- On Sat, 7/19/08, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Back and with a PESO > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 7:15 PM > 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. -- 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.

