Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Barney, Seeing all the elements, I think you did a very creative job. A kind of pre-visualisation of negatives and beyond. And I would keep it exactly as you initially presented it. Although Geoff made excellent suggestions to get your shot more natural looking. But I'd give it another title, emphasizing that there's something strange with the moon. Which would legitimize your result and avoid comments like 'that moon looks like it's stuck on with a patch of bubblegum'. Just my 2 cents (dollars, not Euros), Philippe Op 7-feb-08, om 03:24 heeft Bernard Quinn het volgende geschreven: > > Moon rise on the Blackwater river in the late autumn and early > winter after the Harvest moon is, for me, a stunning and mystical > experience. The full moon is rising over the pine trees. You can > smell the water. The Sun is setting over your right shoulder. > Thousands of Geese are flying around honking at the top of their > lungs looking for dinner and a place to spend the night. It's cold > and windy.Things are happening very quickly. It's exciting and it's > all over in ten minutes. I have always wanted to make a picture to > share this experience. Here is the evolution of the Blackwater > Moonrise I posted on Sunday. > > > If you just point a camera at the moon rise it looks like this. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_1.jpg.html > > If you wait a few minutes it looks like this. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_2.jpg.html > > The first doesn't rise to the level of a snapshot and the second > doesn't exactly say what I wanted. So, I took this image....... > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_1.jpg.html > > And this image........ > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_2.jpg.html > > To the lab which does my printing for me and had them combine them. > This was the result. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Original.jpg.html > > I didn't think that the colors looked natural. Could it have been > fixed in photoshop? Don't know. I desaturated the image, cropped > it, and posted it starting the pasted moon thing. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/ > Blackwater_Moonrise.jpg.html > > Geoff Hoplinson made a few suggestions. I took his advice about > changing the moon. Here is the result. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/ > Blackwater_Moonrise_2.jpg.html > > There you have it. Those are all the pieces. Comments and ideas > welcome. > > Barney > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >