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Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital

11/09/2005 07:09:52 PM · #1

Following a suggestion (thanks Roxanne!) I added two new galleries to my portfolio. If anyone has a minute or two, I would really appreciate any feedback at all on the Scopes and Glass galleries.

Comments will be reciprocated of course.

Thanks in advance.

(not sure why, but it makes me feel funny asking for comments...)

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joynim

Olympus E-500 EVOLT

11/09/2005 07:16:44 PM · #2

Left some comments for you. Dont worry i feel funny giving comments and I dont do it very often:)

11/09/2005 07:30:27 PM · #3

Thanks! left a few for you as well. Very nice portraits!

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

11/09/2005 08:16:46 PM · #4

Thanks so far for the comments. To answer the questions:

Scopes - all are taken with my Sony through my kaliedoscopes.

Glass - my mom has these glass spheres hanging in the bay window of her living room. They are about the size of a softball/grapefruit. Also taken with the Sony and the lense pretty much right up against the glass.

GentleSoul

Canon EOS-30D

11/09/2005 08:28:08 PM · #5

Alienyst, I left you a comment on one of your glass photos, and will be leaving some more shortly, I hope.

One suggestion now that I know what they are: you might want to consider shining different light sources through them, at different distances. I'll bet if you have different colored lights, you'll get all sorts of interesting shots. (And as I discovered the other night, you don't need gels or anything to produce different colored lights. You can take a flash light and shine it through things like yellow dish soap to get nice color. Simple, and kinda fun - makes you start looking for translucent things around the house! :)

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11/09/2005 08:58:45 PM · #6

The spheres in the window...

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/09/2005 09:10:58 PM · #7

More answers to questions:

The scope shots were taken with the lense right up against the scope eyepiece. All in macro mode and all zoomed so I could get to the business end of the scope and past the eyehole.

The light source was a 75 watt white light light bulb in a ball lamp about 8 inhces from the end. Closer and it was way to bright. Farther away and way too dark. All in all I took over 300 shots through 4 of the 8 scopes I have.

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SJCarter

Canon EOS-7D

11/09/2005 09:18:05 PM · #8

Left you a couple of comments... Will leave a couple more. :-)

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/09/2005 10:39:47 PM · #9

SJ - I suppose there is a lot of similarity in them. Perhaps because i liked the shapes. I took dozens of these in three different sessions. I will look through the folder again and post some others. I have two that I really like that are different perspectives of the same sphere - the blue one. One, in the bubbles in the glass you can see all the trees in the yard. The other, I used the ribbon of glass, which looks like a tree, and focused on that. Others I guess I just thought that people would not get the fact that they were not blurry but it was the glass itself being so close to the lense and the colors from the front side and the back side blending. I keep wanting to go back and shoot these with the Canon to see what I could get with that. Much better control than with the Sony. Also, they look much better when larger. If you look at the same gallery on my smug site (link in profile) you will see what I mean.

Thanks for the comments. I am off to take the dogs out and then shut down for the night. I will get to your portfolio tomorrow.

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SJCarter

Canon EOS-7D

11/09/2005 11:47:19 PM · #10

I'll take another gander... I always enjoy looking at your work. :-)

brizmama

Nikon D200

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

11/10/2005 12:06:33 AM · #11

Great additions. Left comments. EB

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