Some impressive looking flowers Joel - very colourful.
I think your studio is due for a little maintenance !
...Wayne
>
> It would be my fate to go to a flower show the day after C.H. Ling posted
his
> yearly quotient of pretty dumplings. This was my second annual trip to
the
> Quad Cities' Wallace Garden Center Orchid Show 2013:
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
>
> C & C gratefully accepted.
>
> The results this year were a bit disappointing on a variety of levels.
> Last year, not knowing what we would find but wanting to travel light, I
took
> the E-410 and kit lenses. I ended up using the DZ 45-150 for nearly all
of the
> shots. Aside from some strident bokeh, I was really pleased with that
> combination, the light, the color temperature, and the subjects
themselves.
> This year was quite different. I thought I would better last year by
taking E-
> 620 and DZ 50-200. As it turned out, the much lighter
> 45-150 just gave me fewer problems hand-holding. Even with the 620's IS,
I
> felt higher ISOs gave me better results. The light was very even
greenhouse
> light, but the overall conditions outside were muted because of cloud
cover.
> So I was shooting at 1600 most of the time and getting some underexposure.
> The results were very usable but often quite noisy. I don't object to some
> noise, but I did some noise reduction on almost every shot.
>
> If you want to compare to last year, check it out in my Archives at the
link
> above.
>
> I grow tedious, I know, but even the flowers were a bit off this year. I
noted
> in some of my photos (not those shown here) that the flowers were starting
> to fade and wither!
>
> So this may be good news to all but the 2 or 3 of us that like flowers --
there
> aren't a lot of flowers to look at.
>
> Still, I had fun. I should either have taken a monopod or the E-410 and
DZ 45-
> 150. I made a mental note to try Ling's favorite, Z 180/2.8, on my OM-5D.
> That is likely to require the 7 and 14mm tubes, however, and that would be
a
> pain, but maybe some pretty Chinese ladies might appear out of nowhere.
>
> Joel (I can dream) W.
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