2008/9/30 mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Were your thoughts on the finely textured bright side or the grimly brooding > dark side?
Lol. Somewhere in between, I think. Thanks to y'all who commented, it pretty much confirmed that my train of thoughts wasn't completely off track. I do agree with P.J., though, It's not a great image, but here's the story: I was enjoying myself immensely that day, let loose in a such a beautiful stretch of nature. As Ken pointed out, it might be the sort of vista that is better enjoyed than photographed. I think that's very much a correct assessment, even when coming from someone who once won a photo competition with a landscape shot taken with the FA*600/4 from Mt. McKinley... :-) Anyway, I was awed by the view, and thought it a bit sad that such beauty wouldn't come through very well in a photo. Then I went on to ponder why it doesn't (on a general basis, not particularly about this photo). The only reason I could come up with was the lack of any reference points to the scale of the landscape, so I can relate very much to Jack's comment. As I was considering this, I noticed a reindeer hunter crossing the moors with his dog. Just a little black speck that I never would have noticed if it stood still. Then I thought to heck with it, and fired off a frame. It could be fun to _know_ that there was a point of reference the even if noone else could see it. It might turn up in a really large print, I guess, but this particular image is hardly worth that. :-) Here's the same image, but with the human pointed out and enlarged to how it looks in the raw file. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VWBjZjc1fI4/SOCOaHQx0xI/AAAAAAAAAT4/8OFTdapafxs/s1600-h/20080928-0290-human.jpg http://yi.no/o9Js Thanks for sharing my train of thoughts. Tickets already paid for. :-) If you wish to read another incoherent account of my thoughts about this, it also exists in form of a blog text: http://alunfoto.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.
