Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]it is slightly better with Geoff's suggestion, but I still find it "artificial". I understand what you are trying to do, Barney, but then I second Philippe's suggestion that you need to get into Photoshop in a bigger way and work some more at it. Or...just conclude that in this case the image as you perceived it simply does not translate well into a photograph and move on. That is what I would do, since I do not do this kind of Photoshop manipulation as a matter of principle (which is a convenient principle since I am too lazy to learn how to do it anyway ;-)) Nathan On 7-feb-2008, at 3:24, Bernard Quinn wrote: > > Moon rise on the Blackwater river in the late autumn and early > winter after the Harvest moon is, for me, a stunning and mystical > experience. The full moon is rising over the pine trees. You can > smell the water. The Sun is setting over your right shoulder. > Thousands of Geese are flying around honking at the top of their > lungs looking for dinner and a place to spend the night. It's cold > and windy.Things are happening very quickly. It's exciting and it's > all over in ten minutes. I have always wanted to make a picture to > share this experience. Here is the evolution of the Blackwater > Moonrise I posted on Sunday. > > > If you just point a camera at the moon rise it looks like this. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_1.jpg.html > > If you wait a few minutes it looks like this. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_2.jpg.html > > The first doesn't rise to the level of a snapshot and the second > doesn't exactly say what I wanted. So, I took this image....... > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_1.jpg.html > > And this image........ > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_2.jpg.html > > To the lab which does my printing for me and had them combine them. > This was the result. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Original.jpg.html > > I didn't think that the colors looked natural. Could it have been > fixed in photoshop? Don't know. I desaturated the image, cropped > it, and posted it starting the pasted moon thing. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/ > Blackwater_Moonrise.jpg.html > > Geoff Hoplinson made a few suggestions. I took his advice about > changing the moon. Here is the result. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/ > Blackwater_Moonrise_2.jpg.html > > There you have it. Those are all the pieces. Comments and ideas > welcome. > > Barney > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman nathan@nathanfoto.com General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog