Well, well ... I had a Macro Sunday as well Rob.
My wife has managed to grow a "Mapplethorpe" flower whose real name is
something like "Zantendeschia" and I managed to put off garden work by
running a roll of Fuji Neopan 400 through my OM4 with 90/2 taking shots
of the flower and its lovely leaves.
I have developed and scanned the shots and I shall put them on a
temporary website shortly. First impressions are that the scanner
could not sort out the white of the flower very well and I had to move
the levels quite a bit (might have been my exposure, but won't know
until I wet-print it. But the scanner found the grain pattern in the
Neopan quite easily (developed in ID11 1:1 for 8:30 at 21deg C); I
wonder if HP5 would have been quite so grainy. For some reason I am
loath to go the Delta way, but I shall try the new Tri-X.
Chris
On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 04:06 Europe/London, R. Jackson wrote:
April has had bronchitis that's kept her home the past few days. I had
actually hoped to make the OM meet in Berkeley today, but I decided to
spend the day taking care of April instead. Anyway, after I made lunch
today I mowed the yard for the first time this spring. There's a park
bench in the middle of our yard and when I moved it to mow I
overturned an abalone shell that had been resting on it to find three
large snails. Seeing a prime opportunity to try out my new 90mm f2 I
ran inside and grabbed my camera bag. What a cool experience. The DOF
at minimum focusing distance was so minimal that if I had the head of
a snail in focus, its shell was a blur. The bench and the abalone
shell were a soft blur in the background. I don't think I've ever done
any kind of composition with that little DOF in the viewfinder. I hit
the preview a couple of times to get an idea what I was actually
getting. I shot about a dozen shots of HP5 of those snails. I look
forward to seeing how they turn out. I'll probably polish off the roll
and develop it tomorrow.
-Rob
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