Glen, Thanks for considerate answer. Just a curiosity, opinion sounding
upload.
I enjoyed the peek.
Jack
--- Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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