On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:01 AM, <[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.
Lovely! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
