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Subject: [Leica] recrop: [WAS Re: BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors]
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:28:15 -0400
References: <C69F9E58.526D3%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark - I see what you mean.  I see it in the posted jpg but not in the  
full size image in LR.  I wonder if were not seeing a jpg compression  
effect in this case.

Thanks for letting me know in any case.

Regards,

Dick



On Aug 05, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> 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
>
>
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