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Subject: [Leica] recrop: [WAS Re: BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors]
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:38:48 -0400

> Hi Dick, for what its worth I think this is now a much stronger picture
> 
> Regards
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 8:53:05 PM
> Subject: [Leica] recrop: [WAS Re: BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate
> Sailors]
> 
> Well, the value of judging in these contests has always been suspect to 
> me.?
> It seems to lead to conformity, IMHO.? But that said, I cropped out the
> rocks.? The result is here:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4199_crop.
> jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/l3ltkf
> 
> The cropped version certainly emphasizes the anticipated crash, but to my 
> mind
> loses the piece of information that they are both in a very narrow channel.
> 
> It'd be interesting to hear what others think.? Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 05, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Philip Price wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dick, I belong to a photographic society here, ( UK ) and we have 
>> monthly
>> competitions which are always keenly contested, our regular club 
>> membership
>> is 70 /80 members. I regularly enter prints, with it must be said varying
>> degrees of success ! Over the years I have learnt to anticipate what the
>> judge will like or not like, believe me some of them can be pretty 
>> ferocious
>> with their comments ! I do love the drama in your shot but I know the 
>> judge
>> in a competition would probaly comment on those rocks.
>> 
>> As an amateur though I listen, and then go out and do the same thing 
>> again,
>> after all its for my pleasure not some judge who is definitely not on my
>> Christmas card list !!!
>> 
>> Happy snapping Phil.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 4:29:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors
>> 
>> Well, that's interesting.? I had thought that the rocks and distant shore
>> added to the drama by emphasizing the narrowness of the channel in which 
>> all
>> this drama was occurring.
>> 
>> Thanks for commenting.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 05, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Philip Price wrote:
>> 
>>> Lots of drama, and movement in the shot, just a pity about the rocks in 
>>> the
>>> bottom right forground.
>>> Regards
>>> Phil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 6:56:56 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors
>>> 
>>> ACK
>>> 
>>> NICE
>>> 
>>> ric
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We almost never race through Woods Hole Passage on the Weekends.? The
>>>> powerboat traffic is just too thick and the current usually too 
>>>> strong..?
>>>> Three Sundays ago, though, the wind was too strong to race in the Bay or
>>>> the Sound.? So, since the current in the Hole was nearly slack at race 
>>>> time
>>>> and the boat traffic was nearly nil, we did, only to run into an 
>>>> entirely
>>>> different obstacle:
>>>> 
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4199.jp
>>>> g.html
>>>> or
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/klkd3w
>>>> 
>>>> Ever practical, we just raced around them.
>>>> 
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4230.jp
>>>> g.html
>>>> or
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/mycc4q
>>>> 
>>>> D300, etc.
>>>> 
>>>> C&C fervently desired.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Dick
>>>> 
>>>> 
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> 
The sailboat on my monitor has a large area of blank white in it.
Needs detail there. Try darkening it. Just the boat.


Mark William Rabiner





Replies: Reply from r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor) ([Leica] recrop: [WAS Re: BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors])
In reply to: Message from philipprice80 at yahoo.com (Philip Price) ([Leica] recrop: [WAS Re: BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors])