I like these. Active and entertaining. Paul via phone
> On Jan 26, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. -- 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.
