Hi all; Moose commented
> Brian Swale wrote:
>
> >Hi all
> >
> >Here are three of the first seventy E-1 shots I made (the top 3 of the page).
> >
> >http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/recent4.htm\
> >
> Very Nice!! The first is my favorite, I love the mood and the lots of
> different distinct distance planes.
Thanks; I never tire of the moods of that view. Long or short. Better than TV.
>
> Only one thing I would try to change and that's the foreground on the
> third one, which looks over sharpened. I run into the same thing a lot,
> where sharpening that's right for the main subject overdoes the
> foreground. *
Not sharpened at all in any part. I tried unsharp mask and it made no
difference at the level I tried. The Sigma 90 f/2.8 macro seems nice.
>
> About the Monterey Cypress, I assume from the "sticking up" bit that you
> mean these <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/SonMen02.htm>? They look
> to me like the cypresses I see around Monterey and that's what folks
> call them. Groves are small, but they are all over the Marin, Sonoma and
> Mendocino Co. coasts. I've assumed the grove size is a natural result of
> the many different climate/ecological niches on this coast. Lots of
> different flora, and each kind found only in certain types of places.
> These trees are mostly found just inland from the really exposed areas,
> where the Monterey Pines are often found in very interesting
> configurations from the wind, often in small valleys with some wind
> protection, like the top shot. although also on hill tops a little
> further in. Top shot is from my recent trip and I like it. Bottom shot
> is an out take from another trip that isn't very good and is a poor
> scan, but it does show what they look like on a hilltop exposed to
> constant wind. Much more straggly and beat up.
Yes, that's the one.
>
> If I've got the right trees, "geologically extinct" seems overstated,
> but I'm no Biologist.
In terms of geological time scale, and the fact that this species is confined
to
very small coastal niches by the climate of the land just a few 100 yards
inland from where they grow (and has been confined there for many hundreds
or maybe thousands of years) except for the intervention of man which
liberated the species from its prison, it would take a fairly small shift in
sea
level, rainfall or temperature regime to wipe it out. It literally has nowhere
to
go, as its growing requirements trap it to where it now is. That is what I
meant.
>
> Moose
>
> * the top shot on the web page has part of the foreground and main main
> subjects sharpened differently.
>
No sharpening at all. Could be an atmospheric haze thing. That 90mm
becomes an effective 180mm on the E-1.
My 16mm Sigma becomes a 32mm. Drat !! The OM4T lives !!
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