But . . . but . . . Moose, while the images are indeed colorful, fetching and
sensuous, in order to grok the experience we also need so see the señorita in
charge of the shop. Only then can we enjoy the full experience.
Please try to do better next time. <g>
My personal favorite is the last one. Maybe having something to do with wave
form.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Jan 13, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Moose 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.
--
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