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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Blackwater Twilight
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:38:22 -0700
References: <B7CC95C1-E7A8-4711-959D-FCE63A2FCDF4@mac.com> <41099D4EA2D94644A24A5FFD29B74500@syneticfeba505> <1BF57E2F-6B32-4732-9E9C-AE34532C47E5@mac.com>

Better, now crop that to a pano :-)

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Barney Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> wrote:

>
> Ted and Jim,
>
> thank you for your advice and thank you both for taking the time to look at
> my picture and to give me some very sensible advice about it. I agree with
> your comments. Having two centers of interest in a photograph is asking for
> trouble. It doesn't work.
>
> Here is the original.......
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blackwater+twilight.jpg.html
>
> Here is the edited version as per Dr. Ted and Jim......
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blsckwater_Twilight_3.jpg.html
>
> What do you think? which do your prefer?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Barney
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:24 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
>
>  Barney Quinn offered:
>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Blackwater Twilight
>>
>>
>>  Blackwater Twilight. Taken just before sunset at the Blackwater  Wildlife
>>> Refuge on Maryland's Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blackwater+twilight.jpg.html
>>>
>>
>> Hi Barney,
>> FWIW: !
>>
>> 1/ a NICE SHOT NO QUESTION!
>>
>> 2/ TOO MAKE IT A MAJOR PHOTO????
>>
>> Yep it's not bad, however to make it knock yer socks off! I'm going to
>> suggest..... only because it's too glaring and killing the major effect 
>> this
>> photo could have!
>>
>> "Crop the sun and reflection out, not by much but get rid of it!" And as
>> Richard has suggested making it into a kind of pano with birds, background
>> shoreline and just above that line of shore and just below the birds in 
>> the
>> water. Like long and narrow without any sunshine shining bright!
>>
>> You want the colour of the sky and that of the water, that's it with birds
>> and shoreline!
>>
>> Have a look and see what you think.
>>
>> By the same token we all see our photographs as we like. Therefore mon ami
>> it's always important you do your own thing to your own liking.... this is
>> merely a suggestion.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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