I dangle a toe into the murkey waters with my first post....

Pentax ZX-50, Tamron 70-300 (@~200), Fuji Superia 100, Bogen 3011 Tripod. Thanks in advance for all your critique!

-- Eric Peltier (espelt@winternet.com), August 06, 1998

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Ooops, the ever-correct-significant-other has deemed them Tiger Lilies. Sorry!

-- Eric Peltier (espelt@winternet.com), August 06, 1998.

Very very lovely shapes, composition and color contrast! It looks a little unsharp overall on my monitor, but that might be the scan.

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 06, 1998.

Very very lovely shapes, composition and color contrast! It looks a little unsharp overall on my monitor, but that might be the scan.

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 06, 1998.

(I always wonderer why people occasionally post their messages twice. Now that it happened to me I know why: I had impatiently pressed the "back" button on my browser while Phil's message displayed "Inserting now" but before the "success" sign came on. So I went forward again and pushed the submit button again. Now I know that it is NOT necessary to wait for the "Success" message)...sorry...

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 06, 1998.

Thank you, Andreas! The scan does not do the print justice, but I have to admit the part of the photo that is tack-sharp is just 1" behind the open flower. Oh well. ESP

-- Eric Peltier (espelt@winternet.com), August 06, 1998.

This is a nice composition, but gets much better, if you crop it tighter so that the two unopened buds are close to the frame. The diagonal of the three elements then becomes much stronger and nothing of interest in the background is lost.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), August 07, 1998.