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Photo Forum / Film Photography / 35 mm / June 2007One-a-Day Plus (or minus) gallery for 6-16-07 (posted 6-20)
http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 Willa -- http://www.pbase.com/willarojo “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Thoreau, Civil Disobedience “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau, Walden > http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 > > Willa Don't want to hog the critiquing, but... This absolutely cries out for that little bit of web to be in focus. In all other ways, a very nice shot with beautiful colours and nice compsoition, but that fuzzy bit of web kills it for me, sorry. Keep up the posting though! > http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 > > Willa > --http://www.pbase.com/willarojo Very nice image. Good colors. Very soft BG allows subject to leap up at viewer. Hard to do hand held and you almost pulled it off. Could quite figure out where your focas was. It seemed to be some where in between the flower and the rear "berry". Missing both. Not by much, just enough to make both a little soft. If you are able to reshoot this, use a tripod and a smaller aperture, just slightly smaller, and go for it. What type of "berry" and flower it it? Just wondering. Keep shooting. Draco Getting even isn't good enough. Doing better does. >>http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > aperture, just slightly smaller, and go for it. > What type of "berry" and flower it it? Just wondering. Some kind of what we call Blue Witch in CA, Solanum spp. related to tomatoes. I really like the composition! The focus is within a hair of being on the yellow part of the flower which would have been perfect. Stopping down a little... maybe... or another technique is to focus by rocking in & out & shoot several then choose the best or merge two or more together. This way you still get the mood & soft background but can add DOF in key places as desired. Below is an example where just two leaves pushed into the foreground so I merged those in from a separate shot. If you click the image for a full pixel crop you can see a little ghost from imperfect merging with a soft edged eraser: <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/Natur al-Areas/mount-davidson/2007-06-19&PG=1&PIC=0>  SignaturePaul Furman Photography http://www.edgehill.net/1 Bay Natives Nursery http://www.baynatives.com >>>http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 >>> [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San > -Francisco/Natural-Areas/mount-davidson/2007-06-19&PG=1&PIC=0> <Gasp!> You mean you cheated?! :) I think I'll stop by again after work on Friday and try to get some shots of these little beans. I'll leave the tripod at home--I'm really trying to practice my "au naturel" skills--and see what I can do. I find being conscious of how I move, in other words 'carefully rocking', is the best technique. 3 cemetaries between work & home, a super-long 15-minute drive. 2 of them, including the beanie one, are old... some graves back to early 1800s, maybe some 1700s if I look hard. Thanks for looking! I'll post more when I get some spot-on. Willa Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/willarojo “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Thoreau, Civil Disobedience “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau, Walden >> http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Doing better does. To be honest, I have no idea what they are. I was literally getting into my car after finishing an hour at my favorite "haunt", a nice old cemetary, when I noticed them growing up through a shrub. I assume they're a weed, apparently a kind of vine. Here's one more view, maybe someone else recognizes it? http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80943506 Willa Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/willarojo “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Thoreau, Civil Disobedience “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau, Walden > Here's one more view, maybe someone else recognizes it? > > http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80943506 Yes, I do!!! It's what I saw last night when I turned the light off... (Which is a very lame way of pointing out to you that the link results in "The Image ID specified in the URL does not exist. It was probably deleted, but verify the URL." (O; > On Jun 22, 11:51 am, Willarojo <macropho...@SPAMyahooLESS.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > (O; Dang it, I hoped I hadn't posted the link to the duplicate. Oops! :) Willa Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/willarojo “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Thoreau, Civil Disobedience “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau, Walden > Draco vehemently accused > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>>Willa >>>--http://www.pbase.com/willarojo >> What type of "berry" and flower it it? Just wondering. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > http:// www .pbase.com/willarojo/image/80943506 This link: http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80942921 It's definitely a Solanum species: Night Shade, Blue Witch, tomato family, semi woody. Here's two of our local species: <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/Peninsula&PG=1&PIC=2> <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/Peninsula/sweeney-r idge&PG=2&PIC=9> SignaturePaul Furman Photography http://www.edgehill.net/1 Bay Natives Nursery http://www.baynatives.com >> Here's one more view, maybe someone else recognizes it? >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > It's definitely a Solanum species: Night Shade, Blue Witch, tomato > family, semi woody. Here's what we have on the East coast. I believe this species is very poisonous. <http://www.geocities.com/ritaberk2007/nightshade.htm> Rita >>> Here's one more view, maybe someone else recognizes it? >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Rita Definitely the same. Don't eat! :) Willa Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/willarojo “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Thoreau, Civil Disobedience “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau, Walden >> Draco vehemently accused >> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/Pen > insula/sweeney-ridge&PG=2&PIC=9> Definitely looks closely related. My particular one doesn't seem too healthy, not sure what it needs to thrive. Now I know not to eat it. :) Thanks! Willa Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/willarojo “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Thoreau, Civil Disobedience “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau, Walden > http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 The colors are wonderful if a bit dark. Great complements. The focus "attention" getter is ambiguous making the image a bit pointless seeming. As another poster mentioned, the white bit of web, in focus, would have anchored the image somewhat. One typical cheat / cliché would be to spray a little mist on the plant to pop it a bit. Cheers, Alan Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. >> http://www.pbase.com/willarojo/image/80844348 > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Cheers, > Alan I feel like a fool because I didn't even see the web when I was shooting. Just call me Mr. Observant. LOL I'll see if I can do something in PSE (2.0, no laughing!) to bring up the web. All of these so far have been very quick & dirty RAW conversions, trying for speed of shooting and processing. Which is such a pleasant change from the workflow of shooting and scanning slide film. I'll remember that cheat... I love finding dew- or rain-covered objects, especially plants/flowers, but I never thought to make it rain. :) Thanks! Willa Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/willarojo “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” Thoreau, Civil Disobedience “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau, Walden |
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