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Subject: [Leica] Moonrise - Ansel Adams
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:49:51 -0500
References: <CAFfkXxuv=TbRaBo_dnuN+0m=RTtxfOpRrR+3fNEKDd3Xj-SwrA@mail.gmail.com> <CD769E9C.2B84A%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com> <003801ce2a77$af1496c0$0d3dc440$@cox.net>

Details, details. ;-)



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Sonny Carter
http://www.SonC.com/look


On Mar 26, 2013, at 6:14 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Nice image.  My wife and I were driving by Hernandez one evening when there
> was a full moon rising.  My photo is a little different - there is
> definitely a difference between an 8x10 and a triplet lens, and a Contax
> 35mm with a 25mm Distagon.  Oh wait, I forgot the story that goes along 
> with
> my photo......
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Chris
> Crawford
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 11:44 PM
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Moonrise - Ansel Adams
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Chris Crawford
> Fine Art Photography
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
> 260-437-8990
> 
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> 
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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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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Sonny
>> http://sonc.com/look/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>> 
>> USA
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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)
Message from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] Moonrise - Ansel Adams)