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Subject: [Leica] Moonrise over Quartzsite
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:17:29 -0800
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Thanks to all who have viewed and commented on and off list.

To answer your question, no flash, but a flashlight.  I dimmed my flashlight 
to a small spot with my fingers, then painted it up and down the cactus a 
few times.  I have quite a few attempts, but most were too bright, or my 
spot was not good enough and spilled over onto the ground.  I chose the 
darker one as more natural looking.

The ones with the trailer were done in the same fashion, but with a slightly 
bigger and brighter spot as they were further away than the cactus.

Aram

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From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:49 PM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Moonrise over Quartzsite

> Much appreciated series here too Aram
>
> Did you use a flash of sorts in #1?
>
> Amities
> Philippe
>
> Le 31 janv. 14 ? 01:33, Jim Nichols a ?crit :
>
>> Hi Aram,
>>
>> 7731 and 7746 are beautiful.  Very creative work.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>> On 1/30/2014 6:23 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:
>>> Not quite Ansel Adams, but it was interesting.  These were taken  about 
>>> two weeks ago in the massive BLM land around Quartzsite where  hundreds 
>>> of thousands of campers descend on the poor town for a few  weeks.
>>>
>>> View Large, Please
>>>
>>> The moon not quite up yet.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7788.jpg.html
>>>
>>> I was trying to line up a shot with the trailers we were in, when  my 
>>> sister-in-law and her dad came around the corner, flashlights  blaring 
>>> and I got this.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7785.jpg.html
>>>
>>> What I really wanted was this:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7786.jpg.html
>>>
>>> but I actually like the first one better.
>>>
>>> OK.  moon is up now.  Let's see if I can get stars and moon, too.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7731.jpg.html
>>>
>>> And I noticed the shadows being cast by the moon, so tried to  capture 
>>> those, too.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7746.jpg.html
>>>
>>> It was fun, if not cold.
>>>
>>> All exposures about 30 seconds.  The first three I also used a 
>>> flashlight to paint the cactus and the trailers.
>>>
>>> Comments welcome.
>>>
>>> Aram
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Aram Langhans
>>> (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
>>> & Unemployed photographer
>>>  "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin 
>>> himself would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson
>>>
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard at sfr.fr) ([Leica] Moonrise over Quartzsite)
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