Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just realized I didn't pepper the last two paragraphs of my last e-mail properly with smilies. Here's a couple: :-) ;-), please season appropriately. Dick >Walt - We may be over-analyzing an image that was intended to be >Magritte-like and therefore strange. Unless there is haze and a lot >of nearby light, you will always see the dark side of the disk, and >certainly never see deep blue sky "through" it. > >I really like the image. It's just that it's non-physical. > >Maybe it needs a guy in a black bowler with an apple in his mouth >floating in from the upper left corner of the shot, Mary-Poppins >like, to emphasize the point. > >Or, how 'bout a half apple up there instead of the Moon? > >Dick > >>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 >>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>Leica Users Group. >>>>>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>Regards, >>>>> >>>>>Dick >>>>>