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Subject: [Leica] Moonrise - Ansel Adams
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:22:20 -0500
References: <CAFfkXxuv=TbRaBo_dnuN+0m=RTtxfOpRrR+3fNEKDd3Xj-SwrA@mail.gmail.com> <CD769E9C.2B84A%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Chris Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> Moonrise wasn't in Yosemite, it was in Hernandez, New Mexico. Hernandez is
> not a town, its a collection of rundown trailers around an old church. I
> visited it one day when I lived in Santa Fe. The place is about an hour
> drive north from Santa, if I remember right.
>
> I shot this photo of the church Adams photographed:
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1274
>
> Adams shot it from the highway, which is behind the church, while I made
> my photo from the front of it. The crosses and gravestones he saw behind
> the church were not visible when I was there because the whole churchyard
> was overgrown with tall weeds when I was there in the summer of 2006.
>


Thanks. I clarified that in a later post.  Doesn't change the point I was
trying to make.


>
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> On 3/25/13 10:56 PM, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >But Adam, They could paint three dots on the ground at Yellowstone,
> >and at the appointed hour with an identical camera and identical
> >plates and, well, you get the picture, Actually, I mean, you would not
> >get the picture.  Moonrise is a non-repeatable.
> >
> >You might come close, but why would you want to?   So you might have
> >gotten a better result shooting wider, or faster or at a different
> >ISO.  The conditions are gonna be different next time unless you are
> >in a studio.
> >
> >The whole point of what we do is to see something and show someone
> >else what we see.
> >
> >Look Adam, See what I see!
> >
> >Behold!    Look!  See!   Emblepo!
> >
> >There are  lots of variables in Photography, what we do out there is
> >try to get them right.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
> >> Maybe for you guys who have been shooting for ages. For us neophytes
> >>that information is actually instructive: I look at an image, mostly I
> >>remember what I was trying to achieve. How did I shoot this? Hmmm,
> >>interesting choice but I might have gotten a better result shooting
> >>wider, or faster, or at a different ISO. There are lots of variables in
> >>photography. Not all of us are adept at getting them right.
> >>
> >> I don't think having that available is harmful or useless. I find it
> >>invaluable.
> >>
> >> I've found a somewhat snotty vibe to the responses to this post mostly
> >>because Nathan's original post was a bit edgy and judgmental since he
> >>dissed the entire idea of metadata from the git-go.
> >>
> >> Metadata are a tool, just as the captured image is a tool, to making a
> >>better image the next time.
> >>
> >> That's the important part.
> >>
> >> Adam
> >>
> >> On Mar 24, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> >>wrote:
> >>> techhnical details are useless at best, and harmful at worst.
> >>
> >>
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> >
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> >
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Sonny
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In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Technical detail--why?)
Message from chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford) ([Leica] Moonrise - Ansel Adams)