Darren, my "if at all possible" was offered just for the reasons you site. I meant, positioning yourself further to the left, and shooting to place the front of the house right of center. In addition to those limiting factors you mentioned, I see that my idea would have caused you to loose the diagonal perspective of the house. Not good! I'm convinced that you shot it the way you did for all the right reasons. Sky composition, probably one of the most critical. Thanks, Darren for allowing my oblique nit.
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Addy" <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 10:08:06 PM Subject: Re: PESO: Long Abandoned Far too kind, Frank! Until Jack spoke up I thought I'd have to sit my camera down and walk away. :) Appreciate the "nit pick" Jack, but not sure I understand. By "front" do you mean the three windows side? And "house on the right of center" you mean the whole house (by panning left or positioning to the left? By way of explanation, I had to work around a couple of "problems" in the scene: 1) What I really liked (and did not want to lose) was the thin boards sticking out on the right of the roof peak and seeing them through the small window hole in the peak. 2) The sun is *just* out of frame to the left. 3) If I move my feet further to the left you would see a telephone/electrical pole come into view which I have hidden behind the house. Left of the frame is also a tall communication tower (some distance away). I took several images at different distances and focal lengths (on the 10-20mm) but almost all were taken from this angle (for the aforementioned reasons). Of the various zooms, etc. this is the one that "jumped out" at me. I wish I could pull out the metal fence post in the weeds in front of the building, but I didn't want to attempt photoshopping it out. Didn't bother me THAT much. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Jack Davis <jdavi...@comcast.net> wrote: > Darren, this the nittiest pick you will likely ever see. I would have placed > the house > on the right of center IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. As it is the front is emotionally > less accessible > and would always be my issue. > That wonderful sky looks to be such as would accommodate the move. > Love the shot generally. > > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darren Addy" <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 4:39:17 PM > Subject: Re: PESO: Long Abandoned > > Thanks to all who looked and commented. This was my favorite image of the day. > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> Stunning! >> >> Paul via phone >> >>> On May 11, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Donald Guthrie <shark50...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Darn near perfect, Darren. Print it. >>> >>>> On 5/11/15 3:20 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: >>>> Message: 12 >>>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 14:39:41 -0500 >>>> From: Darren Addy<pixelsmi...@gmail.com> >>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> >>>> Subject: PESO: Long Abandoned >>>> Message-ID: >>>> <caeqabgr4ihw+kxnuqf7+rqcx4nay62odhczxparjat4y9nc...@mail.gmail.com> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >>>> >>>> The moment I saw this scene I was thinking "Zone System" treatment. >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/17340700510/in/dateposted-public/ >>>> >>>> Comments & criticism welcome in equal measure. >>>> >>>> -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
