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Subject: [Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3
From: geebee at geebeephoto.com (GeeBee)
Date: Tue Jul 27 15:55:59 2004
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From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>

Subject: Re: [Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3


> Graham Battison showed:
> Subject: [Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3
>
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> > http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/Leica/Grafton_Regis_03.htm<<
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> 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
>
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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



In reply to: Message from geebeephoto at fsmail.net (Graham Battison) ([Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3)