I have to agree here, great pictures.. I would have loved to have seen this
in Portra 160 instead of 400, but great pics. You've got my vote..
Albert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin G Flink" <mgflink@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Fw: [OM] Unexpected Surprises
> John....#3 is an absolutely marvelous picture...Best of show for
sure...Just
> charming...Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Lind <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:04 PM
> Subject: [OM] Unexpected Surprises
>
>
> >A few days after the New Year, I went to a friend's home to show he and
his
> >wife the basics of making macro-photographs of flowers. He has a studio
> >out of which he does weddings and portraiture, but he had never this type
> >of "still life" before. Mostly, his wife wants to do some artistic
> >work. The benefit was being able to play with his studio lights again
and
> >I struck a deal that whatever I shot could be used in exhibition. :-)
> >
> >Took the OM-1n which still had a half-roll of Portra 400NC in it (would
> >have liked to use 160NC but didn't have any), the extension tubes, and
the
> >50/1.4, 85/2, 135/2.8 and 200/4 lenses. Turn out the flower his wife
> >wanted to photograph is and amaryllis in full bloom. These was not the
> >small house plant I was expecting; it stands almost 3 feet tall! [My
other
> >half's idea of house plants are African violets.]
> >
> >Rearranged his lighting from a "cross" setup with fill using three
strobes
> >to a single strobe for a couple shots using "loop" and then changed it to
> >"Rembrandt" for a little more contrast. There was enough "bounce" from
the
> >walls and ceiling that fill wasn't needed. Set up the tripod with an
> >extension tube on the 85/2 and got a frame-filling photograph of one
> >blossom on her amaryllis with the "Rembrandt" setup:
> > http://johnlind.tripod.com/amaryllis03b.jpg
> >
> >Then came the unexpected . . .
> >
> >I had the camera off the tripod to move it again for a different
> >perspective from a greater distance. One of their cats showed up in the
> >studio to investigate what was going on. Quickly pushed the tripod out
of
> >the way and managed to get three shots of the cat before he decided he
had
> >seen enough. Got this grab shot of the cat [color balance and print
> >exposure is off making working with the scan difficult; it needs to be
> >reprinted]:
> > http://johnlind.tripod.com/amaryllis01b.jpg
> >
> >A few minutes later, their 18 mo. old son escapes the room he's been
penned
> >into and he wanders in. I didn't know this beforehand, but his mother
has
> >been teaching him to sniff flowers. He even does this now with pictures
of
> >flowers! This enormous amaryllis is sitting on a short pedastal and the
> >blossom was just about his height. You guessed it; he wants to sniff the
> >flower and manages a good whiff about the time his mother gets hold of
him
> >at the belt line to keep him from grabbing at the plant. Before he
managed
> >to rip a part of a large petal off, I managed to get one more shot:
> > http://johnlind.tripod.com/amaryllis02a.jpg
> >
> >At that point we declared a "break" for our model and allowed the plant
to
> >return to its table in their kitchen.
> >
> >The first one is a decent photograph, but you can bet I will use the
second
> >(if it can be printed properly) and definitely the third one for
> >exhibition. Sometimes it's the unexpected that creates the best ones!!
> >
> >-- John
> >
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