I tried reshooting Cemetary Mary this afternoon with the K20, 18-250 and bringing my own "halos" rather than trying to rely on the poinsettas: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614916598003/
for reference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157613488879884/ Today's shots with the more subtle halo are an improvement, but I don't think that it's a shot that will quite work out. Thanks for all the suggestions the first time around, they did help the shot. I did learn something today, and that is even if you think shadows will be so blurred by depth of field that they don't matter, you're wrong. I'm also amazed that I didn't notice the fly on her. If I had been going for a particular shot, the fly might have been an interesting juxtaposition, but that wasn't what I was going for and due to my inattentiveness (a lesson I should have learned long ago) I ended up having to throw out a bunch of shots. -- Every medium suffers from its own particular handicap. Photography's greatest handicap is the ease with which the medium as such can be learned. As a result, too many budding neophytes learn to speak the language too long before they have anything to say." W. Connell 1949 Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
