Well you know I'm pulling your chain just a bit , too, don't you? I'm just saying, though, that you would find, compose, and shoot a photo that the average joe with a camera wouldn't think of shooting - and those shots are what set you apart and show your style.
This scene itself was so "blingy" that someone of lesser talents and the op to stand where you were standing would have taken the shot too. I like your subtle snow shots lots better. ann Tom C wrote: >>From: ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>Now I'm going to ruin your good mood :) :) >>Tom - as far as what nature provided this is a definite "WOW" - I wish >>I'd been there - >>but it is less than your best as far as your photography goes - it's >>too easy. >>Everyone would have taken that shot had they been there - or something >>similar.... >> >> > >Of course they would. :-) Easy shots are bad??? :-) I had just awoke and >was laying there looking out wondering if I should actually get up and take >some pictures or go back to sleep. Of course there's very little time to >choose my vantage point or alter the composition, aside from deciding how >much zoom and how much sky vs.horizon before the light changes. > > > >>I think, also, That had you been shooting with an LX you would have shot >>a rool of film and >>found almost all of them better... the kind of scene film does better >>than digital , I think. >> >> >> > > > >>ann >> >> > >Probably, and I'd have been shooting Velvia. ;-) I just didn't have the 6x7 >ready to go and I was barely awake besides. Had I actually been awake I >probably would have walked down the hill and put some large silohouetted >pines somewhere in the scene. I do have several variations as it is. but >overall similar. (What would have been cool is to have been at Mores Creek >Overlook at the right time in the morning). > > > >>ann >> >> >> > >I'll harp on this again. :-) Sure the shot was easy. But factor in that I >had to find the house, make payments on the house, buy the kind of vehicles >that will dependably get my family to/from the house in all seasons, chain >up betwen 10 - 20 times a year, travel the 30 miles to work, 30 miles back >almost every day, avoid the deer jumping out into the road at night, and on >TOP OF ALL OF THAT, wake up and get the camera... see it wasn't that easy. >LOL! > >Thanks for commenting on my lazy a**. :-) > >Tom C. > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
