[Leica] Treez/moonshadows

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Sonny and Richard:

I'm amazed that you guys found enough light out there at night to shoot 
these photos.

I like the atmosphere of this one:
http://www.sonc.com/moonlight_oak.htm

and the dark wintry-ness of this one:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/L1020179_web

Jim


SonC@aol.com wrote:
> A full moon gives off quite a lot of light, and  when you couple it to a 
> Noctilux lens and 1600 ISO film, you get some  interesting shadows and  
> light:
> 
> 
> http://www.sonc.com/moonlit_house.htm
> 
> Same night, you  know this tree, as it has shaded me and plagued me for 
> years, this time I snuck  up on it by the full  moon:
> 
> http://www.sonc.com/moonlight_oak.htm
> 
> 
> On the road from  Natchitoches to Shreveport; I didn't see anyone kissing 
> under  it:
> 
> http://www.sonc.com/mistletoe_tree.htm
> 
Richard S. Taylor wrote:
 > Looks like Sonny and I were both moonstruck last week.  I took these
 > last Thursday between 10 and 11 PM with the nearly-full, ice-blue, moon
 > almost directly overhead.  Temperature about 20F and the air absolutely
 > still.  All were taken with the Digilux 2 ISO 100 F2.0 at 8 seconds 24mm
 > equivalent focal length.  Shot RAW but these are all from the hi-res
 > jpgs that the camera generates at the same time.
 >
 > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/L1020170_rotated_web
 >
 > I'm not sure which of the following two I like better - same subject.
 >
 > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/L1020182_web
 >
 > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/L1020179_web
 >
 > I'm not sure how well this will come across on the web.  The outline of
 > the roof top should be just visible above absolute black.  This works on
 > my iMac but not so well on my PowerBook.
 >
 > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/L1020167_web
 >
 > Comments encouraged as always.  Thanks.