On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > These pictures were shot on the West side of Hellyer for a > change. There's a little red International tractor parked in a field > next to a company parking lot. I stopped by for a quick shoot when I > left work yesterday: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157616541528855/ > > As usual the DA40 was on my camera, and pretty much all of my other > lenses were in my camera bag. There were arguments in favor of > grabbing the bag so that I'd have all of my lenses with me, but for > some reason, I just wanted to shoot with the DA40. I can't explain why > I enjoy shooting with that one lens so much. > > The DFA50 macro would have been handy on some of the shots, but I > don't like the bokeh quite as much, and maybe the 18-250 isn't quite > as razor sharp, but that's about all of the bad things I have to say > about the lenses I might have used. There's something, and I can't > define it, that just makes shooting with that lens fun. > > I do think that I'll need to go back soon with the macro for some of > the detail shots. > > I also need to get better at winnowing out shots. There are things in > Lightroom for help with that, I just need to get off my duff and learn > those features. > > C&C, especially suggestions for improvement, welcome.
Whenever I see an old caterpillar tractor like that which was used for pulling farm implements, I think of The Grapes of Wrath. The "corporate farmers" who pushed the sharecroppers of the farms in Oklahoma used those things (as described in the book), both the till the farms and to raze the buildings of the sharecroppers. I really like this set of photos. 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.
