I like that very much, John. Cheers, Christine
On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <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. > > > > -- > -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.
