Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina: I have been unable to comment much recently. And your stuff is usually to such a high standard that it seems almost silly and pointless to just chime in with "great shot" or some such thing. But in this case, I think you've come up with a National Geographic cover. I want to say so, even if belatedly. The girl and her smile are so engaging, the scenery so gorgeous, and the late afternoon lighting so beautiful that I do not care that you had to open up the shadowed face a bit more than realistically possible with the natural light. My head knows that you did, my heart is with the content. And I'm someone who normally finds HDR pictures cheesy and impossible looking. The picture looks like there was a bit of fill flash or an assistant with a reflector just off-camera. So, you did that digitally. So what? You could take the face down a couple of points and see if that makes it more realistic. But for the most part, I'd leave it alone, maybe clone out that bright backwards C-shaped hair on her upper forehead. I can honestly say I see this on the cover of something--a book about the region, a magazine, a charitable organization's booklet. Or, like I said, National Geographic. Wow. --Peter Tina posted: > Here's one more. Same place, different lens, different subject. > <http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/120763541> > > Going through all of these photos makes me want to be somewhere else > tonight! > Good-night, all! > Tina