Agreed. Delightful color and texture. But this one appears to have
faint reflections on it
<http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10592> Was it taken
through glass? Actually, the orange piece at center top appears to have
a faint perfect circle on it. How might that have happened?
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/13/2014 4:56 PM, Moose wrote:
> 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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