We had a friend visiting last weekend, and took our traditional jaunt for Thai
food. The girls were almost sucked into
the sale at a women's boutique and consignment store, but hunger won out until
sated.
After lunch, I went to the Co-op gallery on the corner. After I'd seen about
all the art I could hold, chatted up the
señorita* behind the counter shamelessly and asked about membership, those
girls still hadn't emerged.
So I wandered across the street and inside, only to find some delicious light
on a wonderful selection of colorful
goods. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10586>
I seldom exhort folks to dive into the individual images. Here, the color to be
seen in the thumbnails is only a part of
the story, many of the textures are sensationally sensuous. (The sensations of
sensing them with touch were sensuous, as
well, but you are limited to the sense of vision.)
Apropos recent threads about image quality from various cameras and sensor
sizes, all of these were taken with the same
sensor as the E-M5, all at ISO 3200 - and there are a couple of 100% crops that
ain't too shabby, both as attractive
images and as illustrations of what the sensor can do.
It's also, to me, an illustration of why lens speed alone is often not enough
to realize the result I want. Sure, the
lens goes to f3.5 at this focal length, or I could have brought out the 20/1.7.
And yes, there were shallow focal plane
images I could have made. But I wanted enough DOF to capture the texture of the
loose weaves as they undulated nearer
and further from the camera. That meant f8 (and some soft areas, anyway), and
ISO 3200, no matter what lens I had. That,
size and weight are why I'm not interested in the undoubtedly magical new
12-40/2.8.
Oh yeah, I came away with images and a wallet, the girls with several beautiful
steals to wear.
Shoot and Shop Moose
* Literal
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