On Nov 20, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Then I realized what I really needed was Ralf's nightscape skills. > > You're all far overestimating the role I'm playing in all this. 90 > percent of it is living near the right places and being there when the > light is good.
I suspect that that 90% is more a case of knowing how to recognize which are the right places and the good light. I'd love to see what you could do at the Oakland shipyards with their "At-At" cranes. > > Yes, there is good and bad light at night. The time around full moon, > like tonight, is always good. Combine it with a few low hanging fluffy > clouds to give the sky more depth and you already have one half of a > good shot. > > Far less wizardry involved than you all think. > >> I'd really like to see is what Ralf could do at night with a 645D > > So would I. :-) > >> and that if Pentax were smart, they'd loan Ralf a 645D for a few weeks, >> just to see what one could do for night time landscapes. > > Anyone at Pentax reading this...? I wonder if Pentax Europe is easier or harder to reach than North America or corporate? I hope that Pentax is flooded with orders from early adopters of the 645D, and that drives the price down, as well as helps them iron out all the wrinkles. I hope that there are enough people complaining about lack of tethering that they get a good tethering solution, and that it trickles down to the APS models. I also hope that the 645DII is to the 645D what the K-5 seems to be to the K20, and in not too many > > Though I'm currently quite happy with the K-5. Been spending whole > evenings finding out just how far one can push things in Lightroom > without producing any noticeable of noise. Incredible, absolutely > incredible... > > As to your shot, I honestly don't see how I could have done any better, > especially since such simple nature shots are far more demanding than my > industry scenes which are quite spectacular just by their subjects. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
