[Leica] River mouth

[foto at marcdufour.net (Marc Dufour)]

Mark,

Thank you so much for your time, kind comments and reflection.
You confirm all you find the same doubts, time to time.
And all we regret to have not taken "this" picture, which would have be "the 
one", too many times ;-)
All we can do is make good use of the digital stuff, and try to minimize 
these mistakes and oversights.

I've needed a lot of years learning to select, and try to take "the" 
picture, and not dozens of intents, until get the right one.
I only took slides, and never touch up. Just look for the right frame, the 
right exposure. And don't touch up at all. A lot of years...
And now it's so easy to try different options, check, correct and improve 
them, even before to touch up on the PC !
But all these years -as talking about photography as about graphic design- 
all this background, makes easy to make good use of the new tools.
I hope so !

Cheers,
Marc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Pope" <mark en whitedogs.co.uk>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug en leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] River mouth


> Marc,
>
> both images are very strong, graphic images, as befits your profession.
>
> Personally, I prefer the horizontal shot: my eye was led from the sun to 
> the bridge in the distance by the sun's rays then back to the sun by the 
> shore.  Or was it the other way around?  Either way, I really liked the 
> horizontal one.
>
> I must get into the habit of taking both horizontal and verticals - I 
> often get stuck in a rut when composing and forget the obvious.  Until I 
> get home and view the images on-screen, when I think 'I wish I had shot 
> this the other way too...'
>
>
> Mark Pope,
> Swindon, Wilts
> UK
>
> Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
> Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
> Picture a week (2009) 
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>                (2008) 
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
>
>
> Marc Dufour wrote:
>> This river mouth is a protected area, at 20 minutes from home
>> The pictures were taken the last year, but I wasn't satisfied with the 
>> result. Working now from the Raw format, I finally got something closer 
>> to what I saw and tried to catch in those days.
>> Here are two versions of the same landscape:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/Seashores+II/L1000277.jpg.html
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/Seashores+II/L10002784.jpg.html
>>
>> Your C&C will be welcome and very appreciated.
>> Cheers,
>> Marc
>>
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