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**** This Week Through Your µ4/3 (3/13/2011) ****

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Hi all,

Let's start up the week again with the C&C thread. No silly preamble this week in light of the terrible news from Japan. I've created a separate thread for those who would like to comment on the tragedy that is unfolding.
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Thanks for getting us started again, Stan!

Last Friday, when the world was shaken so terribly, I had a most peaceful & sunny walk in the sanddunes by the sea, together with a friend. A couple of years ago the dunes were drying out badly and the authorities raised the groundwater levels. Thanks to that the dunes now have shallow pools in early spring. In a couple of weeks they will be dry and by summer they'll be overgrown with high grasses.

It was my first walk with the 14mm/2.5 - lovely little lens!









Saturday night I attended a magnificent concert by Ernst Reijseger (cello), Mola Sylla (voice and various African instruments) and Harmen Fraanje (piano). Labeled as a mixture of jazz and world music, it turned out to be more like modern classic. A most intens and thrilling concert that kept me so spellbound & shivering for delight that I almost hated to take pics. But I had the Zeiss 50mm/1.4 on my GF1, so....









Here is a video taken by someone else on another occasion of the trio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5tQ70lkB4
(But this vid doesn't really do them justice.)

The GF1 is not really your ideal concert camera, with its loud shutter! So I had to wait for parts of music that were loud enough to make me feel comfortable clicking. That leaves me without a picture of the piano man as he was sitting with his back to the audience except for the moments when he was manually muting the strings of the opened piano and half turned his face my way. But, yep, you get it, muting the string means soft playing, so no shutter click...

All in all I took very few pics, not only because of the clicking, but most of all because I wanted immerse myself in the music again as soon as possible.

C&C welcome as always!

Ciao,

Jeanette
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aka an observation of a series of building grates



 
It's the little things in life that fascinate me, and that's why the 45mm macro is probably one of my favorite lenses.

Like pastries





and napkins





and butter





and coffee





and some kind of weird flower





a paper bag





and my favorite jeans





and the hard drive that i've got to back these up to.



 
Great idea - nice shot. For me I would love it to have a more dramatic contrast applied, but it's great as it!
 
All that food looks fantastic, esp love the coffee beans. The vibrant colours go together great as a set!

You've really got my thinking about saving for a 45mm!
 
I'm so pleased that Spring is coming, and that I invested in a camera combo that I can carry around with me in my coat pocket!

Here's a few from the past week:













I've no idea what these things are called but they look so ethereal and majestic rising out of the ground:









Hope you like them
 
Something a little different - I had a few minutes to kill while waiting for my daughter's bus, so I took a few shots. And while processing them in the new version of Silver Efex Pro, I started playing with the selective colorization, very subtly in two and less subtly in the other two. One of them could just about be a color shot. I kind of like them even though I'm generally not a fan of selective color. Let me know what you think...









-Ray
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Beautiful Jenn - you're so deft with that 14 that it looks like you're shooting with something much wider. I love those shots. And the concert shots are also very nice - less creative by their nature, but lovely studies of musicians at work/play. I've got one of those YouTube's playing right now. Really lovely stuff - I'll have to keep my eyes open for them if they ever play the States...

-Ray
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/20889767@N05/collections/72157626204295198/
 
I'm not usually a fan of macros (since they're so often used on insects and flowers, of which I'm also not usually a fan), but this is a really compelling set. Pretty much all of them are interesting. And the pastry shot is great and creates the conflict/concern - are you gonna eat IT before it eats YOU? ;) A truly frightening pastry - who'd have thought?

-Ray
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/20889767@N05/collections/72157626204295198/
 
I'm not much into selective colouring either, so I'd expect myself to like the more subtle ones the best. But ho no, nrs. 2 and 4 are for me! Moral of the story: what matters more than treatment is the general quality of the image, and for me those two are the strongest. I bet they also would be that in the subtle variety or even in plain B&W, In the last one, tho, I also like the very subtle hint of blue in the greyhound!

Nice experiments, Ray. And well spent waiting time!
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Jenn, the concert footage is wonderful work. Don't hear many talk much of considerations during a performance, your challenges are interesting and admirable. Yea, you lost some, but you still have much significance you've brought back from it, regardless. :)

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...Bob, NYC

'Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't.' - Little Big Man

http://www.bobtullis.com
 
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