Complaining aside, I enjoyed the slide show!
----- Original Message -----
From: DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:38:02 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: [OM] Some new orchid photos and random complaining
It would be my fate to go to a flower show the day after C.H. Ling posted
his yearly quotient of pretty dumplings. This was my second annual trip to
the Quad Cities' Wallace Garden Center Orchid Show 2013:
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
C & C gratefully accepted.
The results this year were a bit disappointing on a variety of levels.
Last year, not knowing what we would find but wanting to travel light, I
took the E-410 and kit lenses. I ended up using the DZ 45-150 for nearly
all of the shots. Aside from some strident bokeh, I was really pleased
with that combination, the light, the color temperature, and the subjects
themselves. This year was quite different. I thought I would better last
year by taking E-620 and DZ 50-200. As it turned out, the much lighter
45-150 just gave me fewer problems hand-holding. Even with the 620's IS, I
felt higher ISOs gave me better results. The light was very even
greenhouse light, but the overall conditions outside were muted because of
cloud cover. So I was shooting at 1600 most of the time and getting some
underexposure. The results were very usable but often quite noisy. I don't
object to some noise, but I did some noise reduction on almost every shot.
If you want to compare to last year, check it out in my Archives at the
link above.
I grow tedious, I know, but even the flowers were a bit off this year. I
noted in some of my photos (not those shown here) that the flowers were
starting to fade and wither!
So this may be good news to all but the 2 or 3 of us that like flowers --
there aren't a lot of flowers to look at.
Still, I had fun. I should either have taken a monopod or the E-410 and DZ
45-150. I made a mental note to try Ling's favorite, Z 180/2.8, on my
OM-5D. That is likely to require the 7 and 14mm tubes, however, and that
would be a pain, but maybe some pretty Chinese ladies might appear out of
nowhere.
Joel (I can dream) W.
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|