On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:36:20 -0800, Marco Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, what laughingly passes for "real" life has finally afforded me > enough time to begin looking at what I shot last Saturday on the NorCal > outing. > > As a brand new member of the ranks of Pentax users, DSLR users and this > list, I feel really lucky to have joined just in time to take part in > such an enjoyable gathering of delightful, knowledgeable people. I only > received my *ist DS a few weeks prior to the outing, and this was the > first chance I'd really had to actually try using it (as opposed to > figuring out how it works). I obviously still have a lot to learn, but > so far, I'm loving it. > > I'm still holding out for a few checks, but in the meantime here's a > couple, with hopefully a few more yet to come. > > http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/norcal1 > http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/norcal2 > > Thanks for looking. > > - Marco >
The first one is a well-composed shot of an interesting subject. The bokeh is really distracting to me, however. Was that taken with a Pentax lens? If so, "yikes"! <g> The second one is pretty cool. I like the idea of a silhouette, with all those shadows and the backlighting. Really underscores the fact that the dentist's torture chair is from a bygone era. Very well conceived and executed photo. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
