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Subject: [OM] Re: [photo] - hummingbird [silhouette]
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:11:09 -0500
If the foreground was in focus it would be a distraction from the bird. 
  If anything I might blur it a little more... but not much.

Chuck Norcutt

Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> Needed six shots to get this one, and took him half an hour to allow me 
> to get that close - less than two meters.
> We didn't meet in a garden, but on the western side of Punta Ballena, a 
> big rocky hill which goes into the sea, during the afternoon. The 
> highlight at the upper-left is sunlight reflected from the water surface 
> of Playa Portezuelo.
> 
> Wish the OM 2n could reach 1/2000 or 1/4000, so as the bird could have 
> had less motion blur.
> I don't like to crop images, so if you don't like the OOF foreground 
> please tell me so: I'm trying to figure out how many photographs do or 
> don't feel an OOF foreground too distracting - ;)
> 
> Any other PS hint is welcome !
> 
> 
> Zuiko Macro 135mm f=1:4.5 @ f=8 mounted on the 65 -116 Telescopic 
> Extension Tube, handheld Olympus OM 2n on Auto mode, Winder 2, Eyecup 1 
> (-5 diopter).
> Fuji Provia 100F.
> 
> <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/2308921779_65bee15cca_o.jpg>
> 
> Fernando.
> 
> 
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