On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:25 PM, "Larry Colen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I spent a few minutes playing with my DFA 50 macro getting some shots of > the newest mushroom crop. Live view is extremely handy for taking > ground level macros. I suspect that a u 4/3 camera (for more depth of > field than APS), with a newest generation sensor, and no mirror to > bounce could make an amazing camera for macro work. > > I really like this bay leaf and mushroom combination (not a bad start on > a tasty soup, I imagine, I wonder if it's poisonous?), but can't decide > which of two compositions works best. > This one, with that little fleck of red on the post in the background: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6258680201/lightbox/ > Or this one, that's framed a lot tighter on the leaf and mushroom: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6258680517/lightbox/
Tough call. I think the first one, mainly because of that long leaf being more in focus at the tip. As a general comment, I would have preferred a slightly higher viewpoint to see a bit of the top of the mushroom. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- 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.
