On Apr 22, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Hi there. > > Galia being given a DFA 50/2.8 macro is starting to get used to it... Here is > a PESO for you: > > http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2011/04/peso-2011-12-snail-trail.html > > K7 and K5 has different sensors and I couldn't get the sand color to match > between the two shots... > > Be brutal and honest. > > Boris >
I see things to like and not like so much about both images. Yours, Boris, I like the dynamic sense created by the trail coming out of the depths of the image. I do not like how bright that upper part is - I would rather expect to see this creature emerging from a darker place. It need not be much darker, just enough so that the glare does not draw the eye there first. Or to try to say it another way, I would prefer it if your light would fade somewhat in a manner correlated with the fall off in sharpness as you get further from the snail. But I think yours is a more artful use of the variation in sharpness. I like Galia's geometric composition, but I think it is too static. Or not enough. Maybe it is a geometric tracing, the trail leading to and punctuated by the snail at the end. In which case I would want to see all of the trail and the snail in sharp focus, which would probably require either a tilt lens or taking the shot from directly above the center of the image. Or maybe the intent is, as with yours, to show the dynamic movement of the snail. In which case the snail and nearer parts of the trail would need to be in sharper focus, those further back need to fade out more. Actually, I don't see anything that is macro-lens sharp and wonder if there was camera movement, maybe the mirror-lockup wasn't used, or maybe it is just the problem of a much compressed image. stan -- 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.
