Scott,
Thanks for your comment. Glad you liked ‘em.
James,
Right you are, again. The Olympus C4000Z is like the Phoenix, you can’t kill it, no matter how hard I try.
Phil,
In this case the eye took precedence over the stomach. My first impulse was to record its image, i.e. photograph them! Then---mangia, mangia!. (eat, eat!)
I remember you once wrote that on your mother's side you have Italian roots, e vero? (is it true?) Come to think of it you might have said Sicilian. In that case, I'm guessing the dialect would be closer to magnia, mangnia! (with "gn" pronounced like " gn" in align, malign
Ron,
It may look like the peppers are floating on water, but they are'nt.. It’s an optical illusion created by light passing through the glass top of the table. The glass is heavily textured on both surfaces and defracts the light creating a type of bokeh background. If I hold my hand directly under the glass top, it is well seen as a hand, but the further the hand is held from the bottom surface of the glass, the more diffused it gets it becomes a blurred blob then just a fuzzy background. Is this explanation as clear as mud?
Mike,
You bet your sweet bippy, I had Edward Weston on my mind. However, it was Claudia, who put the two peppers on the table. We both love Weston's famous bell pepper (photographed in a funnel, really!) When she placed the peppers on the glass top table, I knew her offering had nothing to do with eating them-- at least, not until they were photographed. Btw, they are not “red hot peppers” as far as taste buds are concerned, but the accidental position the two peppers assumed on the textured opaque glass top table got the naughty old man in me thinking way back to my art history classes, and Hindu kamasutra illustrations, in particular.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_WestonPete,
They say the last sensation one has before heading toward the great bokehed unknown, is the sense of sound. I'm hoping imagination would be next to last.
Lili,
I agree with you about amount of megapixel. The essential quality of the top photos made today with 15mp is not 5 times better than the ones made when 3mp were the state of the art in digital photography.
It's a lot of the hype that has existed for decades in the marketing of cameras and lenses. Whatever you buy today will be obsolete in a few years, because the bar is being constantly raised.
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Thanks all for responding to this thread.
