Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lloyd Westbrook wrote: "My wife and I leave for Beijing next week......... " Hi Lloyd We were in China about 18 months ago. The smog was atrocious for photography and made the best of my landscape shots look fogged or completely washed out. Just like using an "Ugly 2" filter. Smog seems to be everywhere. I shot Kodak Gold 100, but it wouldn't have mattered what I used (maybe infra-red could have cut through it). Anyway, I should have just shot B&W and been much more disciplined, turned around, and photographed closer subjects like the local Chinese people around me rather than always trying to get that "brochure" landscape shot. I came home pretty cross with myself. But.....you may get the wind blowing in the right direction, so colour is a must (just in case). Lots of Kodak Gold around in China, at very reasonable prices. I made Photoshop "stitched panoramas" of the Great Wall at Badaling and also Fengdu (going under water big time when the Three Dams Project comes on line) shot from a boat on the Yangtze. Both ended up as B&W, with the Fengdu shot as a tri-tone panorama. We enjoyed this fantastic and diverse country and its people. Have a great time and ......you don't have to go out for "Chinese" there either. Regards Mike Nicholls mikenic@cyberone.com.au *Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs*