Re: PESO: Rain Garden
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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
Quite an effort, John. Hope your K20 dries out and the pixel issues go away. Successful shot! Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 9:55 PM 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. -- 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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
From: Jack Davis Quite an effort, John. Hope your K20 dries out and the pixel issues go away. Successful shot! Thanks. The K20, fortunately, never got appreciably wet. I carried it on the tripod with a 1 gallon zip-lock bag over it didn't take the bag off until I had it all set up was standing there with the umbrella. I only got distracted once and forgot to hold the umbrella over it. At that point the rain was no more than a light sprinkle. The pixel issue is unrelated I think. I'd already noticed it before I went out yesterday. I'm going to have to look up the procedure for mapping hot pixels in the manual. -- 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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
From: Bob Sullivan John, That is an interesting and different looking image. You need something more added to give it a center of interest. Regards, Bob S. Thanks. I need to go back and work the scene some more. I wasn't quite prepared when the opportunity came up yesterday. I have another point of view in mind. There's a small bridge just behind the bamboo, and I want to frame the scene so it leads you into it. Yesterday I couldn't include it without the handle of the flashlight sticking out the back of the stone lantern showing. -- 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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
From: Bruce Walker John's WIALDD (woman in a long diaphanous dress) wasn't available that day. I was thinking more a woman in a traditional Kimono for this shot, but she wasn't available either. Someone it seems, does have sense enough to come in out of the rain. My inspiration are some Japanese woodblock prints my father brought home from the Korean War. I have two of them: http://shogungallery.com/images/products/toku_1204.jpg http://images.artelino.com/images/items/21645a.jpg The PESO isn't quite there (by a very long distance), but at least it got me out of the house. -- 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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
John - yours was one of the PEso's that had me cursing my Monitor because it's lack of brightness made it very difficult to view that interesting shot... liked it anyway ann On 9/7/2012 15:30, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker John's WIALDD (woman in a long diaphanous dress) wasn't available that day. I was thinking more a woman in a traditional Kimono for this shot, but she wasn't available either. Someone it seems, does have sense enough to come in out of the rain. My inspiration are some Japanese woodblock prints my father brought home from the Korean War. I have two of them: http://shogungallery.com/images/products/toku_1204.jpg http://images.artelino.com/images/items/21645a.jpg The PESO isn't quite there (by a very long distance), but at least it got me out of the house. -- 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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
Nice. For me, the vignetting makes it look like a scene through a partially fogged window. 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
That is most excellent - quite a striking shot! Great camera and PS work. Mark On 9/7/2012 12:55 AM, John Sessoms 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.
Re: PESO: Rain Garden
A unique vision. Well done!! Paul On Sep 7, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: That is most excellent - quite a striking shot! Great camera and PS work. Mark On 9/7/2012 12:55 AM, John Sessoms 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.
