I'm a big fan of planned shoots, so I really appreciate how much went into this, John. I really like the subject matter, and I'd say you got the rain effect you were hoping for.
But I feel that the lightening vignette works against this image. And I'd like to see more contrast in the image overall--seems to be a tad too undefined. Sorry to hear about sensor issues with your K20. I wonder what Pentax would charge to fix these now? Maybe cheaper to buy a neglected one from a PDMLer? On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:55 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to > start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They > have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look > in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain & fog. > > So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until > it rained & scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. > > About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the > photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not > ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably > going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop > out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will > look like they're falling upwards. > > Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera & tripod because > I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ > > K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex > Pro & Silver Efex Pro) > > Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. > > In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot > actually). > > My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in > exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus > there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden > sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a > 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the > frame. > > It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and > if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out > a red line across the middle of the frame. > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
