Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted and Jim, thank you for your advice and thank you both for taking the time to look at my picture and to give me some very sensible advice about it. I agree with your comments. Having two centers of interest in a photograph is asking for trouble. It doesn't work. Here is the original....... http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blackwater+twilight.jpg.html Here is the edited version as per Dr. Ted and Jim...... http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blsckwater_Twilight_3.jpg.html What do you think? which do your prefer? Thanks for your help. Barney On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:24 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote: > Barney Quinn offered: > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Blackwater Twilight > > >> Blackwater Twilight. Taken just before sunset at the Blackwater >> Wildlife Refuge on Maryland's Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blackwater+twilight.jpg.html > > Hi Barney, > FWIW: ! > > 1/ a NICE SHOT NO QUESTION! > > 2/ TOO MAKE IT A MAJOR PHOTO???? > > Yep it's not bad, however to make it knock yer socks off! I'm going > to suggest..... only because it's too glaring and killing the major > effect this photo could have! > > "Crop the sun and reflection out, not by much but get rid of it!" > And as Richard has suggested making it into a kind of pano with > birds, background shoreline and just above that line of shore and > just below the birds in the water. Like long and narrow without any > sunshine shining bright! > > You want the colour of the sky and that of the water, that's it > with birds and shoreline! > > Have a look and see what you think. > > By the same token we all see our photographs as we like. Therefore > mon ami it's always important you do your own thing to your own > liking.... this is merely a suggestion. > > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information