Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/27

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Subject: [Leica] Cape Weather and Light
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Sep 27 17:55:43 2005

Thanks, Dick.

As to the photo. The light is right, and you do get the idea of them
returning 'home from the sea,' but the image is somehow cluttered and, at
the same time, loose. The first one though is really wonderful.


On 9/27/05 3:29 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks B.D.  Nice to hear from you.  In the last shot I had hoped to
> convey a sense of the sailors having arrived at a safe mooring at the
> end of a day on the water.
> 
> I used this loose crop to make the boat and sailors small in the
> midst of the fog and oncoming night with the warm house lights behind
> as contrast.
> 
> Maybe it would benefit from a tighter crop on the sailors and the
> lights behind.
> I don't know.
> 
> Sorry about your loss of Tootsie.
> 
>> The first one is wonderful, Dick; nice composition and really captures the
>> season and weather.
>> 
>> For some reason the other to don't do it for me - they strike me as simple
>> snaps of scenes that might ultimately have had more possibility -
>> particularly the last one.
>> 
>> B. D.
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/27/05 2:32 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>  Have finally found some time to begin posting again.  Here are three
>>>  shots from the end of the sailing season on Cape Cod.  My eye was
>>>  caught by the weather and light in each case.
>>> 
>>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/01_20A_0271_web
>>> 
>>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/01_33A_web
>>> 
>>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/02_23A_web
>>> 
>>>  Comments appreciated as always.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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