Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Thanks for taking a peek. I actually had to reduce the contrast quite a bit on the rock and trees image as the contrast range is very large. Perhaps I went a touch too far. Don don.dory@gamil.com On 10/2/05, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote: > > Don, > > great shots. Liked them all. > > Don Dory wrote: > > > Well, after seeing daily scenes from the overpopulated British Isles > this > > year, I decided to see what wilderness there was in urban Atlanta. It > seems > > that there is quite a bit, sort of. First up is a playground buried in > the > > forest. These trees are probably 80-100 years old as that is when they > > stopped lumbar operations in Atlanta. The trees are so small because > bedrock > > is about half a meter below the soil. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/playgroundII > > I thought you meant literally buried, but the way you have shot it the > trees > (pines?) really seem to overwhelm the playground. > > > I liked the rock in the middle of the creek reflecting the forest > > surrounding and enclosing. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/rockI > > I really like this, but I feel that it needs something to bring out the > contrast > a bit more maybe? It may be that you have quite a range going from side to > side > of the image and that gives me the effect that is disturbing me? > > > Last up for this week is a creek wandering through this urban > wilderness. > > While the water has been slowly wearing away the bones of the earth > history > > has passed by with little effect on what is here. You would never know > that > > an entire civilization of Cherokee passed by, more than 7000 men died in > the > > immediate vicinty as recently as 1864, or that 150 yard uphill a > > neighborhood of cottages and bungalows is being gentrified into > McMansions. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/waterfallwide > > You wouldn't! > > thanks for posting them, > > Peter Dzwig > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >