Bruce, Do John and Frank share the WIALDD model. She must be getting lots of Frequent Flyier miles. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > John's WIALDD (woman in a long diaphanous dress) wasn't available that day. > > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> John, >> That is an interesting and different looking image. >> You need something more added to give it a center of interest. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:55 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> 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 >>> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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.
