Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you very much for your thoughtful response to the posted images, Alastair. I greatly appreciate the time and thought you took. Time to rev up Lightroom and perhaps make some changes! I don't have the Passport warranty on the M8 or on its lenses otherwise I might be more frisky with it. The atmosphere was, indeed, very soft which is what I was thinking of when I shot as I did. I liked all the grayness. And yes, that's a big drain. Lake Solano is really more of a collecting pond. Water flows down Putah Creek from Monticello Dam and is backed up by a diversion dam. Some is allowed to flow down the original course of Putah Creek, eastward toward Winters and Davis while the rest goes into an aqueduct for irrigation purposes. Time to get out there and be active, enjoying that summer weather, eh! Again, much thanks, Adam On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Alastair Firkin <afirkin@afirkin.com> wrote: > G'day Adam, > > Don't be scared to take that tough M8 especially if you get the passport > warranty ;-) As Geoff discovered, they are built to bruise!!! Mind you the > M8 would not have been the ideal camera for your cycling subject anyway. > The > first image is serene, but could lose the featureless water and sky without > any problem. It lacks a real central subject but the reflection is lovely: > Is that a drain? Image 2 gets us in amongst the action, and the cropping > looks good. I suspect that a longer lens would give you more details of the > birds, but the atmosphere was probably going to spoil even a great lens' > detail. So as a moody image on a moody misty day, its a nice compromise > focal length wise. Getting rid of the foreground branches on the Right > would > help as they sort of ruin the line and reflections of the subject. > > Cheers > > Alastair (who should be out there riding or doing something to lose that > christmas cheer!!!) > > Ps glad to see you are well on the road to recovery > > --- abridge@gmail.com wrote: > > From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Hungry Fishermen and Lake Solano > Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:22:21 -0800 > > Since THIS year I don't have a shattered shoulder I was free to ride a part > of the metric century. Along the way we rode past Lake Solano where a > cluster of hungry fishermen sat in the cold fog hoping for better times. > The > valley is filled with fog these days, and isothermal at 41 degrees F. Our > route followed part of this year's Amgen Tour of California race. It'll be > fun to watch them do the climbs! Alas there was no buxom angel at the top > of > Cardiac waiting. Drat! > <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/6979845_9k3G6#446717901_ukJ5W> > > I don't dare take my M8 when I ride so these were shot with a Canon G9 at > ISO 400. I'm a bit disappointed in the sharpness. Both images were shot at > the camera's longest focal length. > > Comments, etc, invited and welcome, of course. > > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >