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Re: [OM] Eye Candy - Color, Texture & Unmentionables

Subject: Re: [OM] Eye Candy - Color, Texture & Unmentionables
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:58:12 -0500
My daughter, who is a seamstress, would love that shop!  Beautiful colors
and textures.

Tina


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We had a friend visiting last weekend, and took our traditional jaunt for
> Thai food. The girls were almost sucked into
> the sale at a women's boutique and consignment store, but hunger won out
> until sated.
>
> After lunch, I went to the Co-op gallery on the corner. After I'd seen
> about all the art I could hold, chatted up the
> señorita* behind the counter shamelessly and asked about membership, those
> girls still hadn't emerged.
>
> So I wandered across the street and inside, only to find some delicious
> light on a wonderful selection of colorful
> goods. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10586>
>
> I seldom exhort folks to dive into the individual images. Here, the color
> to be seen in the thumbnails is only a part of
> the story, many of the textures are sensationally sensuous. (The
> sensations of sensing them with touch were sensuous, as
> well, but you are limited to the sense of vision.)
>
> Apropos recent threads about image quality from various cameras and sensor
> sizes, all of these were taken  with the same
> sensor as the E-M5, all at ISO 3200 - and there are a couple of 100% crops
> that ain't too shabby, both as attractive
> images and as illustrations of what the sensor can do.
>
> It's also, to me, an illustration of why lens speed alone is often not
> enough to realize the result I want. Sure, the
> lens goes to f3.5 at this focal length, or I could have brought out the
> 20/1.7. And yes, there were shallow focal plane
> images I could have made. But I wanted enough DOF to capture the texture
> of the loose weaves as they undulated nearer
> and further from the camera. That meant f8 (and some soft areas, anyway),
> and ISO 3200, no matter what lens I had. That,
> size and weight are why I'm not interested in the undoubtedly magical new
> 12-40/2.8.
>
> Oh yeah, I came away with images and a wallet, the girls with several
> beautiful steals to wear.
>
> Shoot and Shop Moose
>
> * Literal
>
>
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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