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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Blackwater "Original"
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Feb 7 21:50:43 2008
References: <E78B7B81-7121-4EE3-9DAB-EC8611D7B045@mac.com> <D013D0C4-3031-42BF-8F7C-7382353CA36B@nathanfoto.com>

On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:38 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> 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.
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> 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 ;-))


better, thanks to Hops...


but I'd wait for the right night, and take a real photo...



Steve
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> Nathan
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> On 7-feb-2008, at 3:24, Bernard Quinn wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> If you just point a camera at the moon rise it looks like this.
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>>   http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_1.jpg.html
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>> If you wait a few minutes it looks like this.
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>>   http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_2.jpg.html
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>> 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.......
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>>   http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_1.jpg.html
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>> And this image........
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>>   http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_2.jpg.html
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>> To the lab which does my printing for me and had them combine them.  
>> This was the result.
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>>   http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Original.jpg.html
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>> 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.
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>>   http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blackwater_Moonrise.jpg.html
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>> Geoff Hoplinson made a few suggestions. I took his advice about  
>> changing the moon. Here is the result.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blackwater_Moonrise_2.jpg.html
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>> There you have it. Those are all the pieces. Comments and ideas  
>> welcome.
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>> Barney
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