Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, fourth :-) my counting and your lack of chimping probably says something about both of us ;-) Cheers > Thanks very much, Alastair, but I am wondering if you mean the third > or the fourth? > > If it is > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/Macau09/W_L1008995Puppets.jpg.html > it is by my count the fourth, but be that as it may it is not so much > a tribute to my talent as to the extreme cropping and dodging and > levels manipulation capabilities of Lightroom. > > And I've got this confession to make: I thought I had a really nice > series of shots of the puppeteer standing in front of the show > interacting with several children in the audience. I thought it would > be a masterpiece. I was so busy shooting I didn't chimp or even look > at the indicators in the viewfinder. Then when I later realized the > M8 shutter dial had slipped and shifted and the whole series was > completely and irretrievably underexposed and lost I almost threw the > damn thing in the harbor. > > Which would have been quite a toss from where I was standing but I was > ready to do it. > > I need more practice. > > <sigh> > > Thanks again, > > --Bob > > ==On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:06 AM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote: >> >> Some very nice records of Macau, but the third one really caught my eye. >> The composition and way you have combined the punch and judy show with >> the >> background buildings is inspired. >> >> Cheers >> >> Alastair >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >