Funny - I was just looking at the tree in my neighbour's yard earlier today, and thinking it would soon be time to have another try at getting a shot I was really happy with. As you have discovered, it's hard to get just the right shot with plenty of the nice pink colour of the buds, but without the flowers themselves looking a little tired and ragged. Of the shots you posted I like the second one the best, but as you say a little more depth of field would probably help.
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:01:01AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Not really. :-) Almost... getting there... > > There's a tree around the corner, sort of in my backyard, that is just > gorgeous every spring. (This year with so little rain, not sure what will > happen.) > I think they are cherry blossoms, if wrong, tell me. > > Lots of caveats, because this is almost a "reject" GESO. Never shown them > online before for that reason. > > These were taken in 2005. I was testing out a new zoom (a good one), and I > deliberately picked out an overcast day. But I didn't know what the heck I > was > doing. I was purposely using a shallow DOF, but in many cases, most cases, > it was TOO shallow. And maybe too overcast. Nothing came out as I wanted. I > think, now, 4 years later I probably could do better. We shall see... if I > remember to shoot them this year. > > I picked out the best of a bad lot, and did nothing much to them. > > http://www.mapphotography.com/Flowers/index.html > > If you think any one (or two) is passable, wouldn't mind hearing about it. > > At the very least it gives you snow bound/fallen on guys something > spring-like to look at. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > --------------------------------------------- > Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. > > **************Who's never won? Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on > AOL Music. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000001) > > -- > 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.
