Couple of close-ups from the gardens

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Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby gooseberry on Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:06 am

Water lily
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Fern b&w
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby jase80 on Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:19 am

Both really beautiful shots. The colours in the first are amazing.
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby stubbsy on Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:34 pm

The water lily is great - razor sharp and good depth of field.
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby biggerry on Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:08 pm

I actually think these are both really neat pictures, surprised they have not got more attention :D

as stubbsy said - good depth of field.

nice colours too :)
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby aim54x on Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:26 pm

Very, very nice. Can I ask what lens?
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby gooseberry on Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:52 pm

Thanks all - glad you like them.

aim54x - the lens is a 5.1-15.3mm f/2.5-4.4 :D

yeah, it's from a compact - ricoh gx-100
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:24 pm

The colours and sharpness in the Water lily are terrific! Impressive stuff.
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby aim54x on Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:32 pm

gooseberry wrote:Thanks all - glad you like them.

aim54x - the lens is a 5.1-15.3mm f/2.5-4.4 :D

yeah, it's from a compact - ricoh gx-100


Awesome shots from the compact, the GX-100 is a great camera. I love my Fuji F100fd.
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Re: Couple of close-ups from the gardens

Postby Matt. K on Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:43 pm

Both stunners. The B&W conversion is very good but could have coped with just a tad more contrast when viewed on my monitor.
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