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Subject: [Leica] A bit of Margritte?
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Sun May 7 09:32:01 2006
References: <682308E9-6A60-441C-BFD5-1B999BE794A2@pandora.be> <p06230935c083c24ddfd4@[10.0.1.3]> <F71C8B5B-828E-49F6-8A4A-0D9E08251B2A@pandora.be> <p06230936c083ce25a65b@[10.0.1.3]>

Richard:

Even if it were the once-a-month phase of the moon? I thought good old 
mother Earth was doing the hiding with her immense derriere?

Walt

Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> Philippe - In all seriousness, the problem I'm having with the shot is 
> that whatever the atmospheric conditions, you would never see deep 
> blue sky (implying atmospheric clarity) and half the moon.  If there 
> was a haze, the sky would be more grayish, the moon pale, and the dark 
> half of the disc hidden in it.
>
> With a full moon and a deep blue sky, the double exposure would work.
>
> On the other hand, maybe strangeness is what you were looking for here.
>
>
>> Why you know how I love this particular program of the Adobe family, 
>> Richard :-)
>>
>> Seriously now: as I already explained to Luis, this is a double 
>> exposure, the moon shot being pulled in a bit more than it appears in 
>> reality here . An old trick really.
>> Now -and maybe this is due to smog, haze or another form of air 
>> contamination- on the 10,2 Mpeg RAW file  of the moon shot, the 
>> shadow part is not visible. So I didn't use it in the final image 
>> either.
>>
>> Thanks for looking,
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 7-mei-06, om 17:37 heeft Richard S. Taylor het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Nice shot Philippe.  I like the tonality and the coloration.  What 
>>> really surprises me, though, is that half the Moon is missing . 
>>> Something's rotten in the state of Holland, to misquote the Bard. 
>>> Either that or someone's been   mucking about in Photoshop again... ;-)
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.fullflavor.be/photography/_DSC0124.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Comments are welcomed.
>>>> Thanks for looking,
>>>> Philippe
>>>>
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>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dick
>>>
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