[Leica] IMG: Blackwater "Original"

[luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll)]

Very nice images Bernard,

My favorite is you called "original", maybe because I'm very classic

 http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Original.jpg.html

Saludos cordiales
Luis



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De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de
Bernard Quinn
Enviado el: jueves, 07 de febrero de 2008 3:24
Para: Leica Users Group
Asunto: [Leica] IMG: Blackwater "Original"


Moon rise on the Blackwater river in the late autumn and early winter after
the Harvest moon is, for me, a stunning and mystical experience. The full
moon is rising over the pine trees. You can smell the water. The Sun is
setting over your right shoulder.  
Thousands of Geese are flying around honking at the top of their lungs
looking for dinner and a place to spend the night. It's cold and
windy.Things are happening very quickly. It's exciting and it's all over in
ten minutes. I have always wanted to make a picture to share this
experience. Here is the evolution of the Blackwater Moonrise I posted on
Sunday.


If you just point a camera at the moon rise it looks like this.

    http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_1.jpg.html

If you wait a few minutes it looks like this.

    http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Moon_2.jpg.html

The first doesn't rise to the level of a snapshot and the second doesn't
exactly say what I wanted. So, I took this image.......

    http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_1.jpg.html

And this image........

    http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Base_2.jpg.html

To the lab which does my printing for me and had them combine them.  
This was the result.

    http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Original.jpg.html

I didn't think that the colors looked natural. Could it have been fixed in
photoshop? Don't know. I desaturated the image, cropped it, and posted it
starting the pasted moon thing.

    http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/
Blackwater_Moonrise.jpg.html

Geoff Hoplinson made a few suggestions. I took his advice about changing the
moon. Here is the result.

    http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/
Blackwater_Moonrise_2.jpg.html

There you have it. Those are all the pieces. Comments and ideas welcome.

Barney














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