On Jun 4, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christine, > I took a long look, this AM, trying to decide if this image reflects a lean > of the tower. I worked for sometime with crop tool lines and my eye. > Something that does tend to imply an overall slope/lean might be the roof > line of the building in front. I attribute that to the fact that > the right side is further from the Pentax than the left. I use the expedient of other windows on my screen as horizontal or vertical lines that I can check lines on the photo with. The left side of the window halfway up the tower seems to be pretty vertical. The roof of the building in front visually slopes to the right. > I think you're just trying to mess up my Golden Ratio. HA!! > > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christine Aguila" <[email protected]> > To: "PDML" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 9:13:54 PM > Subject: Re: Peso: Pigeon Point > > I agree with Brian about the lean. I really like the bw rendering. Cheers, > Christine > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jun 3, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Quoting Jack Davis <[email protected]>: >> >>> I posted the color version of this some time back. Been thinking of >>> following up with a B&W conversion and am finally >>> getting around to it. I’m afraid that I don’t remember the color version, it would be interesting to see and compare. >>> It's an "OLD" negative taken with an ME Super about 30 years ago. >>> The slide was scanned years ago by a Walgreen's Pioneer(?) lab. The local >>> camera store with the oft used Nikon 9000 scanner >>> has since closed. I could make a trip to the city for a decent scan and may >>> do so. The last time I was there, there was an ugly cyclone fence around the lighthouse. Even so, I managed to get one of my favorite photos that night. I just went through the exercise of reprocessing it in the latest version of lightroom, and managed to bring out some details that were lost in my first attempt. Yet another reason to shoot raw, the software to handle raw files keeps improving. >>> Location; Central CA coast. >>> >>> Comments appreciated. >>> >>> Jack >>> >>> http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=771 >> >> >> >> Really nice tone and composition - the fenceline leading up to the >> lighthouse gives a great sense of depth. >> >> My only nit is that the lighthouse has a slight lean to the right. I think >> the image would be improved by a small counter-clockwise rotation. >> >> -- >> Cheers >> >> Brian >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Brian Walters >> Western Sydney Australia >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
