Chris Barker wrote:
Lovely photos Moose. The most interesting ones, for me at any rate,
are the ones with the muted lighting. The White Sprites, pretty as
they are, look a little ordinary, whereas the Irises look really
interesting.
Thanks! I generally agree that indirect or muted light makes for great
images, although I rather like some in birght direct sunlight. I like
the light coming through and shadows from behind the central petal in
White Spider. Deep in the heart of Iris was also taken in direct sun so
the interior would be lighted by light coming through the petals. There
is also a lot of subtle color detail in the petals and droplets in Iris
Emerging, and similar things in some others that isn't apparent in the
reduced and compressed images.
That Kiron lens seems to work very well; is it a "macro"?
Yes, it is a true macro which focuses directly down to 1:1 without any
accessories. Overall one of my favorite lenses. Bokeh that is a little
busy/edgy in some shots at f5.6 with background fairly close is about
the only small negative I can find.
All the pages came up really well, and the portrait format images just
fitted on my 17" monitor set at 1024 x 768 (except that the navigation
buttons and caption were excluded if I had the image complete), but
the landscapes could have been bigger if you had wanted. For me, it
is sizing that takes the time and organisation, especially if there
are portraits as well as landscape.
You'll notice that these are all the same size, 600 pixels on the long
dimension. I just tossed them all in the hopper and let PS size them and
create the pages and thumbnails. I've been thinking how to put the
titles and navigation arrows on the side of portrait images and below
landscape images in an automated process, but haven't gotten far.
Moose
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