"I would look great printed big" should read "It would look great printed big"
-not that I wouldn't look good printed big though... On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Fernando <fer.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like the moon one. I would look great printed big, I think. > > It caught my attention, because I'm reading some stuff on colour > theory -to see if I can improve my colour photography- and the > yellow-orange of the moon contrasts well with the violet colour of the > sky -opposites in the colour wheel: > http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm > > and the amount of colour on the yellow moon and the sky is somewhat > balanced as you have a lot of violet in the sky vs small amount in the > moon (Yellow = 9 / Orange = 8 vs Violet = 3) > http://www.framedreality.com/color-in-photography-color-theory > > and that explains why my eyes go first to the moon, then down to the > crops in the bottom, and finish on the barn. It also has a nice > calming mood to it. > > Anyways, what I meant to say is that I like it. > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Stan Halpin > <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: >> That undergrowth be mature corn. Over the which I was not tall enough to see. >> >> We (my neighbor and I) chose the site because of the barn. We wanted a long >> view, over a field, something interesting (like the barn) mid-distance, with >> the moon low in the sky. But we miscalculated a bit plus there was low-lying >> haze on the horizon. The sun didn't set until well after the moon rose, by >> the time the moon looked like a moon rather than a white blob, it was too >> high in the sky to be able to make the barn a more prominent element. We'll >> go back tomorrow, the sun sets a few minutes earlier, the moon rises 20 >> minutes later, and we have a better feel for the angles now. >> Back to the undergrowth/corn: I have many shots taken from a few feet to the >> left, a point which allows me to look along the roadside edge of the corn >> field. And some from a bit further back, higher on the crown of the road we >> were on. I felt that this one that used the corn field as the foreground was >> less cluttered and allowed the focus to be on the barn and moon. >> >> Thanks for looking Jack! >> >> stan >> >> >> On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Jack Davis wrote: >> >>> Really well done exposure balance. If only the barn were somewhat more >>> prominent. The undergrowth gets in the way, but my guess is it's considered >>> needed to obstruct some unwanted feature(s).(?) >>> >>> Jack >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <PDML@pdml.net> >>> Cc: >>> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:40 PM >>> Subject: PESO: Harvest Moon >>> >>> From earlier this evening: http://smhalpin.posterous.com/harvest-moon >>> >>> The previous two entries in the blog include a color and a B&W version of >>> an egret. Comments on any or all are welcome. >>> >>> stan >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
