PESO -- Leaf

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Quite graceful!

Dan M

On 2/26/07, Boris Liberman <boris71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Scott, it works as it is now.
>
> I however suggest that you consider alternative macro lenses, because
> the shorter the focal length - the closer the object has to be to the
> front element of the lens, which is not always a good thing.
>
> Boris
>
>
> Scott Loveless wrote:
> > I've always been inspired by Paul Caponigro's still life work.  Last
> > month's issue of LensWork featured a photographer by the name of Guy
> > Gagnon, a French Canadian living in Belgium.  His photographs are
> > black and white renderings of dried plants against a black velvet
> > background.  Since it's snowing outside and I didn't really feel like
> > getting out, I draped a black sweatshirt over a dining chair, parked
> > it next to the window, and took a few frames of this leaf that
> > recently fell off one of my wife's plants.
> >
> > http://picasaweb.google.com/sdloveless/PDMLPESO/photo#5035527265195980162
> >
> > I shot this with the K100D and 18-55 kit lens at 45mm, f11, 0.3
> > seconds, -1.5EV, ISO 200, and then tinkered around with it a bit in
> > Picasa.  I think it needs more depth of field.  I think I need a
> > better understanding of black and white conversion.  I know I'm going
> > to want that 35mm Macro Limited.
> >
> > Comments and critiques most welcome.  Thanks for looking.
> >
>
>
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