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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: An Afternoon in Macau
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:50:30 -0500
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quite an interesting tour

thanks!

ric


On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Robert D. Baron wrote:

> Thanks very much, Alastair, but I am wondering if you mean the third
> or the fourth?
> 
> If it is 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/Macau09/W_L1008995Puppets.jpg.html
> it is by my count the fourth, but be that as it may it is not so much
> a tribute to my talent as to the extreme cropping and dodging and
> levels manipulation capabilities of Lightroom.
> 
> And I've got this confession to make: I thought I had a really nice
> series of shots of the puppeteer standing in front of the show
> interacting with several children in the audience.  I thought it would
> be a masterpiece.  I was so busy shooting I didn't chimp or even look
> at the indicators in the viewfinder.  Then when I later realized the
> M8 shutter dial had slipped and shifted and the whole series was
> completely and irretrievably underexposed and lost I almost threw the
> damn thing in the harbor.
> 
> Which would have been quite a toss from where I was standing but I was
> ready to do it.
> 
> I need more practice.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> --Bob
> 
> ==On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:06 AM,  <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Some very nice records of Macau, but the third one really caught my eye.
>> The composition and way you have combined the punch and judy show with the
>> background buildings is inspired.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Alastair
>> 
> 
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