I like it when I'm able to capture an image I've been carrying around in my
head, glad you got a chance with this image.
I like the general composition of your image but it has the feel of heavy
manipulation IMO.
My K20D developed the same symptoms as yours and CRIS repaired it for around
$200 IIRC.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sessoms" <[email protected]>
Subject: PESO: Rain Garden
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.
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