At 11:57 PM 11/23/2005, Jack Davis wrote:
Glen,
I'm sure I'd often not be able to answer this sort of question myself,
but would you care to tell me what about this image 'does it for you.'
IOW, do you 'like' it and if so, can you define why.
Is it the camera's performance, light patterns or....are you looking,
for example, for direction in composition?
Seriously interested.
Jack
Hi Jack,
To be honest, I do like the picture, but it doesn't totally "do it" for me
-- at least, not like some of my other images. I think it's pretty, but at
the same time, lacking something. A twilight image might have been better,
but I didn't arrive in Pittsburgh early enough to take one.
Pittsburgh during Light Up Night is better looking than any of my photos
show. No matter how I adjusted the DS, the images never matched the beauty
of the scene, as seen by the naked eye. I wish I had Photoshop CS2, and the
ability to combine some of my bracketed shots into a single HDRI image.
That would probably help considerably. It's just not possible to capture
the full dynamic range of this scene in a single exposure, using the Pentax DS.
I also wish I could have avoided the perspective "distortion" of tilting
the camera upward to capture the full height of the buildings. A shift lens
would have been terrific for this occasion -- if only I could afford one.
Sure, I can adjust the converging lines in Photoshop, but doing it
optically would be fantastic.
I mainly posted it to see what the others on the list thought of it, (and
to prove I was still here.) ;)
take care,
Glen
