Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: [Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3 > Graham Battison showed: > Subject: [Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3 > > > > http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/Leica/Grafton_Regis_03.htm<< > > > OK Graham now I've got yer number good buddy! :-) > I finally found out how you do these scenics so well all the time. ;-) > > You walk along a river bank or farm field, decide the scene is close to > being right, then cue the actors and whatever items required to make the > scene perfect. > > "OK cue the boat and the fisherman. Boat skipper make sure you go slow to > give the fisherman time to look like he's been there all day." > > And for the final touch? That's when you say..." OK God the cloud effects > now! Not too much, just enough to create that nice soft English countryside > look. :-) > > Meanwhile you stand back and wait, boat floats into right positon, God > whiffs in the soft gentle light clouds, and you go click click! Producing > another winning countryside pictorial master piece! ;-) > ted > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- Hi Ted, You certainly got the God part right except that he supplied it all. When I see something like that I think to myself what a lucky so and so I am to walk into a scene like that. Thanks for looking :-) --Graham