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Subject: [Leica] Wind sewage and surf
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard L Ritter Jr)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:25:40 -0400
References: <8e8bdad0-3842-fefe-385d-4f1e53d0d2cc@iol.ie> <6ce00e8f-cc77-9627-ded5-a25b3b4aca3a@lighttube.net>

I?m still cringing at the appearance of ?sewage outlet? in the same caption 
with ?kite surfing at? and ?close to swimming area"?

?howard

> On Oct 12, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> That's an impressive shot, Douglas.
> 
> On 10/12/20 8:25 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
>> I've been up to my eyes fighting a local planning aberration - hence my 
>> lacklustre recent photography - but had to take my camera to do something 
>> in relation to the appeal.
>> 
>> Because of a slight access difficulty, I decided to use one of my Pentax 
>> lens collection - the M series 2.8/120 on a Fotodiox adaptor. The lens 
>> seemed to work well enough on my various film Pentaxes, but I'm not too 
>> sure about it on the Sony. Maybe I'll have to upscale the adaptor 
>> quality? Thoughts? I'm also not excited by the Fotodiox on my Leica 
>> lenses.
>> 
>> This is virtually the same size as it came out of the camera, but tilted 
>> .05  to level the horizon and minimally cropped to lose the blank bits. 
>> The  image also had auto light levels applied, additional colour 
>> saturation boost of 8 and was sharpened to 41 all in PSE, as it certainly 
>> didn't look great straight out of the camera.
>> 
>> Kite surfing etc. taken at sewage outlet at West Pier, Dun Laoghaire, Co. 
>> Dublin close to Seapoint swimming area.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/Kite+Surfing+Dublin+Bay+1+10_10_20.jpg.html
>>  
>> 
>> Sony A7II and Pentax-M 120/2.8 glass. Shot at either f8 or f11 1/1600s at 
>> ISO 320. Detail can be seen at larger size.
>> 
>> Douglas
>> 
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> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
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