On Apr 26, 2005, at 7:14 AM, John Forbes wrote:
And presumably you'd need a panoramic lens to show Collin.
John
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:32:03 +0100, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Frank. Actually, I already had names for the flowers. The one in focus that's a bit more toward the center is "Knarf." The one that's more to the left is "Frantisek." <vbg>. I think that for future political discussions on the PDML, everyone should have to provide metaphorical photographic evidence :-).
Paul
On Apr 25, 2005, at 11:07 PM, frank theriault wrote:
On 4/25/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:In the spirit of Marxist software, I offer a couple of far left
flowers: bleeding hearts <vbg>. Seriously, these just bloomed today
(after the weekend's foot of snow melted), so I used them to try out
the ring light flash I bought from Christian. I used the ring light
with my Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 macro. I like the device. It might be
too harsh for some macro uses, but I think it will serve well for
anything that's not highly reflective. I may also try it in the studio
as fill in combination with some big lights and reflectors. In any
case, here are the pinko flowers shot at approximately 1:2:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3310077
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3310084
As one bleeding heart to another, I can say, "Geez, those are gorgeous." <g>
Seriously, I like the first one best. I find the second just a bit busy, whereas I find the very simple comp quite compelling in the first one.
Colours, sharpness, nice OOF stuff in both of them.
I think you should name the flowers. In #1, I'd say the in focus one should be called Lenin (because he ~focused~ on building the USSR rather than support revolution elsewhere), and the OOF one should be Trotsky (because he's even farther to the left than Lenin. <LOL>
In #2, there's too many to name individually, so they can simply be
"the proletariate", all working in glorious harmoney, eschewing their
individuality for the good of the collective beauty of the photograph.
BTW, keep politics off the list in the future, eh Paul? <g>
cheers, frank
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