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Subject: [Leica] A bit of Margritte?
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Sun May 7 10:03:38 2006

Just realized I didn't pepper the last two paragraphs of my last 
e-mail properly with smilies.  Here's a couple:  :-)   ;-), please 
season appropriately.

Dick

>Walt - We may be over-analyzing an image that was intended to be 
>Magritte-like and therefore strange.  Unless there is haze and a lot 
>of nearby light, you will always see the dark side of the disk, and 
>certainly never see deep blue sky "through" it.
>
>I really like the image.  It's just that it's non-physical.
>
>Maybe it needs a guy in a black bowler with an apple in his mouth 
>floating in from the upper left corner of the shot, Mary-Poppins 
>like, to emphasize the point.
>
>Or, how 'bout a half apple up there instead of the Moon?
>
>Dick
>
>>Richard:
>>
>>Even if it were the once-a-month phase of the moon? I thought good 
>>old mother Earth was doing the hiding with her immense derriere?
>>
>>Walt
>>
>>Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Philippe - In all seriousness, the problem I'm having with the 
>>>shot is that whatever the atmospheric conditions, you would never 
>>>see deep blue sky (implying atmospheric clarity) and half the 
>>>moon.  If there was a haze, the sky would be more grayish, the 
>>>moon pale, and the dark half of the disc hidden in it.
>>>
>>>With a full moon and a deep blue sky, the double exposure would work.
>>>
>>>On the other hand, maybe strangeness is what you were looking for here.
>>>
>>>>Why you know how I love this particular program of the Adobe 
>>>>family, Richard :-)
>>>>
>>>>Seriously now: as I already explained to Luis, this is a double 
>>>>exposure, the moon shot being pulled in a bit more than it 
>>>>appears in reality here . An old trick really.
>>>>Now -and maybe this is due to smog, haze or another form of air 
>>>>contamination- on the 10,2 Mpeg RAW file  of the moon shot, the 
>>>>shadow part is not visible. So I didn't use it in the final image 
>>>>either.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for looking,
>>>>Philippe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Op 7-mei-06, om 17:37 heeft Richard S. Taylor het volgende geschreven:
>>>>
>>>>>Nice shot Philippe.  I like the tonality and the coloration. 
>>>>>What really surprises me, though, is that half the Moon is 
>>>>>missing . Something's rotten in the state of Holland, to 
>>>>>misquote the Bard. Either that or someone's been   mucking about 
>>>>>in Photoshop again... ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>>...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.fullflavor.be/photography/_DSC0124.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Comments are welcomed.
>>>>>>Thanks for looking,
>>>>>>Philippe
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>Dick
>>>>>