[LargeFormat] Focus Shift on Stopping Down

[Verna Knapp]

Here in Oregon we have a name for a day of sunshine after two days of
rain. It is called "Monday". 

And it has been raining so much that even sunshine during the week would
be welcome here. 

I had a nature photography teacher here that told his class that
"weather"
was a legitimate nature photograph. As a result I have photographs of
rain falling (flash makes it appear to fall up), wind (you should see
the young 60' fir trees whipping around in the wind outside my window
right now!), snow falling, floods flooding, rainbows, fog, surf in
action, landslides, dew, and ... yes, I even included a full moon and
some 
sunrises and sunsets. I have yet to illustrate an earthquake in action,
though.

It is interesting to deliberately go out and try to illustrate the
concept
"it's raining". That was how it started. Heavy raindrops pounding a 
flooded field with the water flooding onto the road was a good one. 

Of course, with large format, a van with a big sliding door would be an 
asset for that particular assignment. I wimped out and used 35mm from
my car window. 

Verna


Clive Warren wrote:
> 
> We have heavy rain here in Bristol this weekend - at least it's not too cold
> - the British obsession with weather is really only due to the large number
> of wet weekends in Winter and sunshine during the week - for me that is when
> you can't take the time out to do personal photography.....
> 

-- 
 "The world is its own magic."
                                      -Shunryu Suzuki