Thanks, Bruce, Gerrit, Bob, Don and Jack. You are right, Bruce, In my desperation to get a shot that had some color and blossoms that filled the frame, I overdid it I wanted a vision of spring in the worst way, and I got it. <G>
This was the first day the crocus started to bloom. It was almost dusk by the time I noticed them and grabbed the camera. The flowers are small, and only a couple if inches in height, and it was wet and muddy on the ground, so I had a bit of trouble maneuvering into a position to look through the viewfinder at all. I took most at f/2, to get decent shutter speed and blur the crap all around the flowers. I took some at f/8, but between the slower shutter speed, the breeze and my shaky hands, those are noticeably less sharp. Even then, the flowers looked tiny and dull, so I cropped the hell out of this one, and really pumped it up in P/S to make it look more "springlike." As you correctly note, the result is a piece of crap technically, but I got the spring colors I wanted, green and blue and yellow and orange. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very good to see, Dan. None of ours are up yet, and my wife was out > the last couple of days tidying leaves off the garden and reports that > the tips of them are showing. > > Were you shooting wide-open with the 50/1.8? I'm guessing that you > used the Lightroom edge-detect feature to sharpen these and I am > distracted by sharpening noise along all the in-focus edges; its > unfortunately obvious. > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Spring has finally sprung. >> Taken in my front yard this afternoon, K-r and smc DA 50mm F1.8 >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17724755 >> Comments are invited. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
