Comments on: My Morning: Birds, Flowers, Coffee, and my Camera http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 20:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: krister johnson http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40032 krister johnson Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:13:57 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40032 Jeffrey, your son is so much bigger than the last time i visited your site. I've had one of my own since then too. Turns out they are awesome. Still think mastering regular expressions is the most accessible and helpful tech book i've yet read. And I've picked up quite a few since I last corresponded with you. I somehow found my way into a job at an electrical engineering company and cannot believe, even though I am not exactly doing any coding, how much i use regex and how much I retained from your book. Hope you and yours are well. Glad to see you are still shooting and blogging. Jeffrey,

your son is so much bigger than the last time i visited your site. I’ve had one of my own since then too. Turns out they are awesome.

Still think mastering regular expressions is the most accessible and helpful tech book i’ve yet read. And I’ve picked up quite a few since I last corresponded with you.

I somehow found my way into a job at an electrical engineering company and cannot believe, even though I am not exactly doing any coding, how much i use regex and how much I retained from your book.

Hope you and yours are well. Glad to see you are still shooting and blogging.

]]> By: Zachary Braverman http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40031 Zachary Braverman Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:43:04 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40031 Those last two are great, especially the morning glory one. Those last two are great, especially the morning glory one.

]]> By: Jonas, Tokyo http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40030 Jonas, Tokyo Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:39:32 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40030 Sorry for hurting your feelings - I knew you are good but had no clue you are perfect ;) I noticed some other cool features in the first bird shot: The beautiful, smooth halo around its head (sweet lens!) and the branch behind its beak. It's a pity for the composition that the branch and bird collide, but on the other hand the diffraction makes it really hard to tell whether the branch is actually in front of or behind the beak. Cool. This weekend I really have to go out and exercise my steady hand and trigger finger. Hope the camera will not break down in the heat... Sorry for hurting your feelings – I knew you are good but had no clue you are perfect ;)

I noticed some other cool features in the first bird shot: The beautiful, smooth halo around its head (sweet lens!) and the branch behind its beak. It’s a pity for the composition that the branch and bird collide, but on the other hand the diffraction makes it really hard to tell whether the branch is actually in front of or behind the beak. Cool.

This weekend I really have to go out and exercise my steady hand and trigger finger. Hope the camera will not break down in the heat…

]]> By: Jonas, Tokyo http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40028 Jonas, Tokyo Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:28:02 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2010-07-28/1578#comment-40028 Beautiful close-ups. 'Source of Light' is very dreamy. The details of the birds are stunning - it is surprising to see the very textile structure of their feathers. I recently got myself a Canon 100 mm Macro, but I didn't take enough time to really play with it yet. But watching these shots as well as your other Voigtländer shots makes me want to skip work and just go out in a park and shoot all day. I did find out, though, that getting the right focus is terribly difficult for a close-up macro shot with wide aperture. How large a ratio of your macro attempts do you scrap because of poor focus? <div class='jfriedl'><p>Scrap? Poor focus? Are you suggesting that not every photo I take is 100% perfect? I'm so very injured. ;-)</p><p>I take a "carpet bombing" approach. Electrons are cheap, and I delete the obvious misses right away in post. I took five or six photos at that exact composition just trying to get focus, and picked the best and dumped the rest. It was easier here than normal, though, because there was a branch nearby I could rest one finger of the lens-holding hand against. It wasn't exactly "bracing" the lens, but merely having something to touch as a frame of reference makes it much easier to hold steady. —Jeffrey</p></div> Beautiful close-ups. ‘Source of Light’ is very dreamy. The details of the birds are stunning – it is surprising to see the very textile structure of their feathers.
I recently got myself a Canon 100 mm Macro, but I didn’t take enough time to really play with it yet. But watching these shots as well as your other Voigtländer shots makes me want to skip work and just go out in a park and shoot all day. I did find out, though, that getting the right focus is terribly difficult for a close-up macro shot with wide aperture. How large a ratio of your macro attempts do you scrap because of poor focus?

Scrap? Poor focus? Are you suggesting that not every photo I take is 100% perfect? I’m so very injured. ;-)

I take a “carpet bombing” approach. Electrons are cheap, and I delete the obvious misses right away in post. I took five or six photos at that exact composition just trying to get focus, and picked the best and dumped the rest. It was easier here than normal, though, because there was a branch nearby I could rest one finger of the lens-holding hand against. It wasn’t exactly “bracing” the lens, but merely having something to touch as a frame of reference makes it much easier to hold steady. —Jeffrey

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