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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Week 38 (ric)
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Sep 24 12:22:30 2008
References: <5548C809-79AC-4743-B6BD-9C30CE4F9653@embarqmail.com> <8183D3B0-1BC8-4AD9-A388-02D535A2B18E@telefonica.net>

> Ric showed us...
>> Thanks for looking. Week 38's offerings:
>>
>> We got a new sign at work this week. A truck took the old one out  
>> months ago in a multi-vehicle crash. It's my first piece of design  
>> that is writ in stone;^) I'll send a shot when the ground is  
>> sculpted. Here they are setting it.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-sign.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4zl3yq
>>
>> Fishing family on the Pamlico River at the foot of the Highway 17  
>> bridge in Washington, NC. Late summer sunset.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-fishing.jpg.html>

this is my favorite of this group Ric...

>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4zl3yq



wrong tiny url above...

>>
>>
>> Shot out the car window while passing.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-tacos.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4ruf9k
>>
>> Got a couple of hours last week to shoot urban landscapes and night  
>> folk in Winston-Salem, NC. Yes, it's where the cigarettes got their  
>> names. We won't talk about the table of tracheostomy patients I sat  
>> next to at a hotel happy hour there one night.
>>
>> The Noctilux and Nokton really can record things (handheld) that  
>> you cannot see with your eye. This lady was minding a late night  
>> urban grocery. I could hardly make out facial details.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-99cent.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4d7cdo
>>
>> Last customer in the diner.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-diner.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/52ardg
>>
>> Customers outside the Silvermoon Saloon. This is the Nokton 35/1.2  
>> wide open.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38- 
>> silvermoon.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4btk36
>>
>> Helping close Mom's shop.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-windowwasher.jpg.html 
>> >
>> http://tinyurl.com/4982f3
>>
>> I really do enjoy the mixed light of late night cities. I've got to  
>> try HDR on this stuff.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-mainst.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/47nxdq
>>
>> Railroad alley between tobacco factories.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/2008/38/38-tracksB.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3lnxqx

nice work with these fast lenses Ric... both f1 and f1.2...

though in several cases we see the tendency in these dark conditions,   
to actually overexpose...

as the metering I assume averages the scene,  the sources of light are  
so often overexposed,  unless compensated...Steve




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