Lukasz,
I have poppies and grain in abundance here but I obviously haven't been seeing
them.Those first two shots are absolutely superb.
Breathtaking!
--Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lukasz Grabun" <lgrabun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: [OM] Summer shots and two questions
>
> I have been playing with Kodak slides recently and have to tell I am
> impressed with results. Even on expired Kodak Elitechrome I got shots
> with decent colour definition and more than satisfying sharpness.
> Pictures from last Sunday are here, if you care:
>
> http://grabun.com/zdjecia/lato/
>
> (Fifth image is dedicated to geebee, if he does not mind, of course :-)
>
> Now, back to business, here are two questions I've been puzzling my
> mind with recently:
>
> [1]. Take a look at forementioned fifth image
> http://grabun.com/zdjecia/lato/05.html
>
> It was taken with OM-2n on Kodak E100VS; OM-2n has no exposure lock
> which would come handy in a picturized scene. Manual mode is somewhat
> flowed in my camera so I had to bracket in orded to get a good
> exposure. First shot was taken in full auto with no compensation at
> all. The frame looks pretty good, the dynamic range of a scene
> overpasses the range of a slide so some parts are underexposed and few
> minor spots are washed out. For the second frame I used +0,6EV to
> compensate for bright clouds that could tricked the camera's
> lightmeter. As it turned out, it was not the case. The slide is
> slightly overexposed which pretty confused me. Third picture was taken
> with -0.3EV compensation and I am not pretty sure why I actually took
> it as it made no sense to me. But, actually, it's the pictured I
> linked to above as it shows most detail with just a small patches of
> underexposed areas.
>
> Would someone enlighten me what is wrong with my thinking and why did
> the camera metered the light the way it did?
>
> [2]. The second question is on GND. How do you use one? According to
> what I've made up it should go as follows: use spotmeter to expose for
> darker foreground, compensate as much as needed, lock exposure, place
> filter against the lens, make a picture. Am I correct?
>
> --
> Lukasz Grabun
> http://www.grabun.com/
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