[Leica] IMG: Epic photo of the Super Moon

Jay Burleson leica at jayburleson.com
Wed Sep 10 23:27:52 PDT 2014


Puts the emphasis on the two ladies now, with just enough of the 
environment to add interest.

Jay

On 9/10/2014 10:06 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> Thanks Jay, please look again. It's actually a 4x5 wide to begin with and I
> cropped to more square. I just re-crop to more rectangle per your
> suggestion. I think it might look better....
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote:
>
>> Very nice, but imho take a bit off the top & bottom & turn it into a
>> landscape oriented image.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On 9/10/2014 1:07 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>>
>>> 9/8/2014 was also the 15th of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar,
>>> meaning that it's the Mid-Autumn Festival where mooncakes are consumed.
>>> Legend has it that the rebels coordinated their attacks by stuffing
>>> messages in the mooncakes in their overthrow of the Mongol invaders so
>>> there's a history lesson there too ("don't teach the peasants how to
>>> read").
>>>
>>> Anyway, it's also one of the "Super Moon" which of course is meaningless
>>> on
>>> a single photo unless photoshop is employed, but enough digression: I
>>> asked
>>> them to "look epic," and this is what they did. Epicness achieved?
>>>
>>> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20140909-Scanned-496.jpg


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