South Hill Lexington, Ky

[alfredo]

A painted lady, and other images.








I'm still working with the Focal 28mm. I changed adaptors and that cured the focus beyond infinity issue. Yeah! I've been shooting raw, but I'm going to go out and see how jpg's look in the next few days. The lens hood has cured some of the flare issues. I am getting more comfortable with this lens.

Shooting with a fixed focal length disciplines you. Give it a try.

[Mira]

1. Just now saw these. Though Architecture is my passion, (one of them, anyway)

and painted ladies a passionate diversion, and I hesitate admitting that I can tire of seeing wonderful shots of flowers,
let me declare that your last photo in this lineup simply makes my breathing stop.

That's all I can say about it, being an amateur who is mostly able to appreciate results, not so much how they were achieved.
You are one of my photo-taking heroes.
But then I hope you already know that.

[alfredo]

2. Thank you thank you thank you. I love the painted ladies.

It is so refreshing to get out of the enforced banality of the suburbs, and into neighborhoods that allow for a bit of individuality.

I try to approach flowers in a different way because I get bored with my flower images. Without the bud in the background, it would have been just another flower image. I love that bud, and should have put more emphasis on it in other images. Also the owner of the flower wanted to see the image online. I gave him my facebook name and posted the photo there.

Of the seventy images I took, only 15 or 16 were worth saving, and some of those were just to show off the houses in my home town.


Those two streets were where the hippie capitalist and artists settled back in the late seventies.

[Mira]

3. Same way I see the bud! It sets the image apart from being a perfect flower

to showing part of a life cycle. Big difference in emotional appeal.

[alfredo]

4. I also left the spider web in the image to inject some

"imperfection." The carpet makers of the Middle East added a mistake to each carpet because only God was perfect. I remember one landscape photographer did not remove discarded cans, and other trash from his images. It's almost a journalistic approach to landscape photos. I try to think of that when I compose and post process. Most of the imperfections are my inexperience.

This shoot was about showing off part of the South Hill neighborhood, and getting acquainted with this lens.

BTW, I really liked your "mom" series. That was so good. You painted a very good portrait of her.

I've decided to hold off buying a wide angle pancake. Instead I am buying the Olympus VF-2 viewfinder. That will do more for my photography than a new lens.