Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You did very well, Jeff. And you are right, the moon ALWAYS looks smaller in a picture than it does to the naked eye ;-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Dec 27, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Jeff Moore wrote: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/pwigomlaap/jbm-20091224-m9a-002-4.jpg.html > > I though this looked cool, but I didn't have a lens with me long enough > to make the moon look anywhere near as big in the picture as it did to > my naked eye. (Actually, does it ever?) So I shot with the 50mm I had, > and present here a tiny crop (actual camera pixel resolution if you hit > the "full size" button, which I recommend) from the frame. I like the > colors, and fiddled with contrast and color characteristics in Lightroom > to try to make it feel even more like I was shooting good ol' Velvia -- > even gave it a touch of Rabiner-esque gradient darkening of the sky -- > and only hope I managed to stop somewhere short of cartoonish. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >