Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/4/02 wharting@adelphia.net wrote: >Thought I recognized your shadow at the extreme left. Looks lie your shadow, >anyway. Could have been Ray Winstone. my shadow is probably falling on the woman and the man to her right who are both playing trumpets... can't be sure though. I was actually quite low for this pic, probably crouching, so it might be an odd shadow... > >But as i was looking at the incredible picture, with the one little black >smudge, I began to wonder if you were putting traps in there for careless >observers... I think I remember Meyerowitz in some of his Cape Light >panoramas, having the same person in several different poses. Well, you spotted the glitch. I only noticed it as I was putting the jpeg up on the page. It's easy to correct but I didn't have time to go back into the layered file, re-edit, flatten, recompose and color correct... as to the other kind of trap, yes, I think it's only fair to put in little clues now and then. Things that you have to think about, like the fact that in last week's picture people were crossing against the light. I don't think this picture has any logic traps... partly because there was really only one way of putting it together. I think there may be a way to put one of the carts in twice without being too obvious. Alternatively I think I might put one of the kids on the grass bank twice or something. However you don't want to do it in *every* image or it just becomes Where's Wally? Sometimes the logic trap is just a conundrum... like one image I have of a crowd of people all facing in the same direction...except the projection makes it look like the people in the center are facing forward and those at the edges facing backwards. What makes this picture possible is the fact that the band were standing in a rough semicircle, something that's not at all obvious from the image. > >What is the elapsed time of the picture (to take the images, not the nine >hours to knit them together)? Less than two minutes for this one. The band were actually just tuning up, running through fourths and fifths, and after a couple of minutes they disbanded, so to speak. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html