On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:47:48PM -0500, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > I wonder if it was a conversation with D-a?
:-) Last night was Paul's birthday party. > At DFX, I took a bunch of shots with the 8mm fisheye, and I showed them > to her, saying that I hadn't seen anybody else using fisheye for > swing/blues dances. And she found your photos circa March of 2013, so > I stood corrected. Despite my reputation for profligate posting, Most of my dance photos don't even end up on flickr at all. And I actually post a very small percentage of my flickr photos, so there's a very good chance that I hadn't posted them. There's also a very good chance that if I had posted them to PDML, you were rather busy with your new long term houseguest and hadn't seen them. > > I think some shots are quite interesting there. Thanks. I bought the lens on a lark, thinking of it as one step up from a lensbaby, and have found it far more useful as a real lens than I ever expected. > Shots from below (or above) have some better potential, specifically, > ending in 35 56, maybe 127. > What I think is important is that in most cases you need to choose the > "main" object (as it is done in 904,346,701,035, 007, etc.), and > concentrate on it. In most cases, "overview" does not work that well. You need to get obnoxiously close to your subject. But it is excellent for showing context, particularly in a small room. > > I hope to get to work on my photos with the 8mm fisheye and show them > here soon. I'm looking forward to it. > > Igor > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:35 AM, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote: > > I was at a party at a friend's house tonight. She was telling me about a > > conversation she'd had, and it prompted me to put together this little > > gallery of dance photos. > > > > It's a shame that at f/3.5 my fisheye lens is so slow, because it can be > > rather fun in the way it catches so much of the action in a small room. > > > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157640171166164/ > > > > -- > > Larry Colen > > > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://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.
