Great stuff in there :-)
Thanks for the colourful and delicate vision on a dull grey morning
Amities
Philippe
Le 13 janv. 14 à 22:56, Moose a écrit :
> 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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