Christine Aguila wrote: > Doug: Sometimes when I look at this, I get the strong urge to reach my hand > deep into photo & move those cars around like one might on a child's train > set. I can't really account for the effect. It's not a model. I shot this > from the balcony on the 27th floor of a building across the river. So, I > was really high up. The sidewalk would be where the darker green water is & > too the right out-of frame. I'm wondering if because I was so high up, it > creates this effect. Maybe someone else can explain. Thanks for looking. > Cheers, Christine
Yeah, I didn't think it was a photo of a scale model, it just sort of has that look. And I /do/ like the shot. What does the histogram on that photo look like? After I've looked at it some more, I'm beginning to suspect that the effect comes from some sort of "compression" in the colors that ended up reducing the micro textures on the surfaces. Maybe combined with the fact that you were shooting from almost directly "up sun" so there aren't many shadows contributing to the textures. The effect seems to be strongest on the lighter colors, too. The strangest thing is that on the tower building on the left, the upper, darker part looks like a regular photo. The black tower really doesn't either. But the lower, lighter colored part of the leftmost tower does look like CGI. It's really strange. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
