All nicely composed grabs. DoF a good compromise to include some background soft detail as the blossoms would hardly justify a "macro" rendering. Combinations of blossoms and berries(?) work well, also.
Jack --- On Mon, 2/2/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: GESO: Cherry Blossom Time! > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 10:01 PM > 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.
