[olavf]

I feel y’alls pain. It’s also a reminder that I really need to get off my butt and start tagging my archives =/

[olavf]

I suspect I’m going to be doing a lot of clicking when it comes time to vote this week.

[olavf]

He quoted your comment. If you select text from another user’s comment and press the “” at the right-hand side of their name it’ll quote that text and allow you to add comments underneath (or with basic HTML you can break up and annotate their comments with your own).

Is that what you mean?

edit: I went back to the thread, and that’s all I could find.
2010-02-11 07:46:38 PM

[olavf]

yeah the mirror shots are a lot of finding a balance in the mess. I don’t own an off-camera flash yet, so I use the studio lighting to attain my ends. It’s difficult to match the amount of lighting and not wash out the subject to get the DOF I want though.

http://65.78.140.207/TF/farktography/100217.reflections/cassie-mirror_3936_sm_web.JPG

/not a shot I’m planning on using – my younger daughter was being jealous because her sister got to play ‘dress-up’ so I had to oblige her

[olavf]

yeah, I know, but in my experience focal length has been somewhat inversely proportional to the lighting (the farther away I am the harder time I have getting the exposure happy) in that type of setting. It may just be me and my rig though :/

I’ve zero experience with T/S lenses, so I really have no idea there.

[olavf]

heh. I know. I started talking about medium-format cameras to Kat yesterday, and she started talking about cars :/

[olavf]

Good point. Some of us don’t have your fancy-schmancy lenses though lady 😉

[olavf]

I think it really depends. This one

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianathemath/3178197030/

for example most likely isn’t a ‘shop. But it’s also outdoors and on a relatively bright day so, small aperture, etc. You’ll also notice that unlike the shot that U-Man posted they’re so straight on that the camera has to be in the shot. In my experience (anyway) as soon as you start coming in at an angle, you start getting diffraction from the glass which makes things tricky. I haven’t been able to fully compensate for it anyway :/

I won’t say it’s impossible, but I would like to know the tech details if someone knows how to do it.

[olavf]

True enough. When I was doing the lunacy contest, I found I could get close, but the aperture was so small that I couldn’t get enough light on the foreground (so I can’t be sure of how close I was).

It’s hard enough with the mirror- even if you can get the aperture right, you’re going to get distortion through the glass unless you’re shooting straight on. And then your camera’s in the shot…

[olavf]

Y’know those pics you have seen of the image in a broken mirror? I have a feeling that the ones where both the mirror and the subject are in focus contain a bit of Photoshoppery.

Example – http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/89606-broken_mirror.jpg

Yeah, I did some playing around with mirrors yesterday. Stacked images perhaps?

[olavf]

I didn’t say that. Did I say that?
/maybe

[olavf]

The VP at my old school handed out the corporal punishment. Just sayin’.

[olavf]

It got filtered for our protection apparently :/

[olavf]

Cool!
/I might make it there in 2013

[olavf]

We’ve got a bigger community than that soosh but there’s an area of town (Old Sacramento) that people tend to just go and wander around a lot. I’ve been thinking about something along similar lines – we go there pretty often to people-watch – but the question here is venue. Most of the art galleries are in a different part of town.
/wonders aloud if one of the landlords down in the old part would let someone use an empty suite…

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