How'd he/she do this?
Craig
I'd like to give this a bash, but, surely the apature would have to be open
for quite some time because of the dark? But if this is so, surely the
ripples would be blurred? Also, to have the darkening in the corners... does
that indicate a certain filter, or would this be done with Photoshop or
something? Surely Photoshop is required for this photo?
Mark M
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In my opinion, this is simply a back-lit AND severely underexposed shot (at
least compared to what the scene really would have looked to the eye).
I believe the actual scene was quite a bit brighter than it appears here.
The sun isn't actually below the horizon yet...rather it's behind the high
part of the building. This would mean the general scene was still fairly
bright compared to how it was captured. Note that there are blue sections
of the sky that look properly exposed for daylight.
This would mean that it could still have been shot at a fairly high shutter
speed, which gave a blue sky, severely underexposed foreground, and dark
reflections of the underexposed clouds.
Craig
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Mark M
> And the gold sort of effect? Edited, or would that be down to how it
looked?
You mean on the water?
I don't think there's any tricky photoshopping going on there.
That's what you'd expect from a sky that color on under-exposed water.
The key there is the fact that the water's color isn't coming through at all
in this exposure...only the reflected golden sunset colors.
Craig
However, up in Scotland today, there ain't too much chance of sun! Plenty of
water though.. :)
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Mark M
> I think I'll need to try this out.
>
> However, up in Scotland today, there ain't too much chance of sun! Plenty
of
> water though.. :)
Great!
-But don't expect to see "gold" unless you've got it in the sky...
:)
It's a great shot, and would not be easy for anyone to capture without some
experimentation.
...Not to mention that you've got to find a beautiful sunset...with water
between you and the sun-obstructing subject.
Craig
http://www.thelisters.co.uk/viewphoto.php?id=174
And probably the same effect, as it was alot lighter then the photos shows..
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Igor Sklar
Camera: Canon EOS 300 D
Lens: EFS 18-55 mm
SANDISK Compact Flash Card 256Mb Type II
and plenty of photoshopping...
Some recent works by the same Lithuanian author:
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/05/25/500703.jpg
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/30/476040.jpg
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/07/545478.jpg
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/15/553505.jpg
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/13/551026.jpg
regards
Mark M
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> "Craig" <brok...@heartattack.com> wrote in message
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> > http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/30/567901.jpg
> >
> > I'd like to give this a bash, but, surely the apature would have to be
open
> > for quite some time because of the dark? But if this is so, surely the
> > ripples would be blurred? Also, to have the darkening in the corners...
does
> > that indicate a certain filter, or would this be done with Photoshop or
> > something? Surely Photoshop is required for this photo?
>
> Camera: Canon EOS 300 D
> Lens: EFS 18-55 mm
> SANDISK Compact Flash Card 256Mb Type II
> and plenty of photoshopping...
Tweaking in Photoshop is one thing...
...but Photoshop isn't necessary to get this basic effect in terms of
reflections, etc.
Jeremy Nixon
> I'd like to give this a bash, but, surely the apature would have to be open
> for quite some time because of the dark? But if this is so, surely the
> ripples would be blurred?
It's exposed for the bright part of the sky; the shutter speed could be
quite fast, probably even fast enough to hand-hold the camera. Sunset
skies are still quite bright, so if you want the foreground to go black
(clearly the intent in this shot) there isn't much trickery to it.
--
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Gary Eickmeier
Mark M wrote:
> "Craig" <brok...@heartattack.com> wrote in message
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>
>>http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/30/567901.jpg
>>
>>I'd like to give this a bash, but, surely the apature would have to be
>
> open
>
>>for quite some time because of the dark? But if this is so, surely the
>>ripples would be blurred? Also, to have the darkening in the corners...
>
> does
>
>>that indicate a certain filter, or would this be done with Photoshop or
>>something? Surely Photoshop is required for this photo?
>
>
> In my opinion, this is simply a back-lit AND severely underexposed shot (at
> least compared to what the scene really would have looked to the eye).
> I believe the actual scene was quite a bit brighter than it appears here.
OK, so, I tried to bring out whatever was there in the shadow areas of
the image - we're getting into the noise floor here, but there is more
data in there. You may find it amusing.
http://www.pbase.com/image/32181860
Gary Eickmeier
Tony Spadaro
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Arty Phacting
Wonderful!
Arts
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Steven Wandy
>
way of expressing himself.
Sunset pictures are really much easier than they seem.
Tom Monego
the exposure is just right, ominous and pretty at the same time. I maybe wrong
but that is my .02.
Tom
In article <4110877d$0$7126$db0f...@news.zen.co.uk>, brok...@heartattack.com
says...
Steve Hix
"Craig" <brok...@heartattack.com> wrote:
> That's not very nice...
Not at all. Sounds like the sort of person who can't feel himself
without knocking down someone else.
Michael Scarpitti
It's simply a shot just before sunset. Nothing remarkable whatsoever.
The light would not be that low, and an exposure of about 1/200 sec is
quite likely.
Tony Spadaro
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jpmcw
> There is no reason to encourage crap.
>
There's even less reason to belittle those who haven't earned your enmity.
--
John McWilliams
"Um, his vocabulary, like, uh, really, ah....... sucked."
Richard Cockburn
> There is no reason to encourage crap.
>
There's no reason for you to be nasty to almost everyone.
--
"Live fast. Die young." (Nikki Sixx)
-Richard Cockburn
Mark M
> There is no reason to encourage crap.
I don't think it's crap.
You have some VERY nice night photography, Tony, but I like this shot.
-Not anything requiring a master arTISTE...but not crap.
Tony Spadaro
discrimination. Killfiled - Goodbye loser.
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Tony Spadaro
encourage teh wonderful world of no taste. If you can't descriminate
b3etween greeting cards and art - that is not my worry. If you can't speak
except in platitudes you belong in the killfile - which is where you are
going. Goodbye loser.
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Juha Lindström
> "Craig" <brok...@heartattack.com> wrote in message news:<4110877d$0$7126$db0f...@news.zen.co.uk>...
>
>>http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/30/567901.jpg
>>
> The light would not be that low, and an exposure of about 1/200 sec is
> quite likely.
Quite right, it is a nice shot. And also it's a fairly easy shot that
can be taken with almost any camera around. I was just checking out some
of the first digital pictures (well any pictures) I've ever taken and
managed to find a shot that's got a _bit_ of similar touch to it. It was
taken about 2 years ago with a Canon Digital Ixus 330 point & shoot.
http://toolbox.homeunix.net/~juha/102-0238_IMG.JPG
The picture is unaltered 2 megapixel shot (~700KB).
I'm not saying it's as good or has the same ammount of effect in it, but
the sun setting down shares a bit of the same.
// Juha
Arty Phacting
I was gonna take issue with wot u sed
But now I agree
Not with the original image but with the bit below
This really is crap
Arts
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Richard Cockburn
> And even less reason to read the crap of Pollyannas with no taste or
> discrimination. Killfiled - Goodbye loser.
>
Don't feel so bad, John. Tony killfiles anyone who slightly disgrees with
him, even if was stated as politely as you stated it.
John McWilliams
> "Tony Spadaro" <tspa...@ncmaps.rr.com> wrote in
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>
>
>> And even less reason to read the crap of Pollyannas with no taste or
>>discrimination. Killfiled - Goodbye loser.
>>
>
>
> Don't feel so bad, John. Tony killfiles anyone who slightly disgrees with
> him, even if was stated as politely as you stated it.
>
Shudder.... I got over it after a long walk, a two hour chat with all my
therapists, much deep introspection, a workout with my personal trainer,
and some chanting. {I live, after all, in No. CA.}
Too bad ole Tony won't be reading this - well he wouldn't understand
irony, apparently....
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After three years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought
tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo inglés, Señor."
John McWilliams
> Tony
>
> I was gonna take issue with wot u sed
>
> But now I agree
>
Thanks to you both for sharing these opinions!
It does provide some amusement here, you arbiters of taste, you.
--
John McWilliams
Richard Cockburn
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> Richard Cockburn wrote:
>
>> "Tony Spadaro" <tspa...@ncmaps.rr.com> wrote in
>> news:gPtQc.165735$wH4.9...@twister.southeast.rr.com:
>>
>>
>>> And even less reason to read the crap of Pollyannas with no taste
>>> or
>>>discrimination. Killfiled - Goodbye loser.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Don't feel so bad, John. Tony killfiles anyone who slightly disgrees
>> with him, even if was stated as politely as you stated it.
>>
>
> Shudder.... I got over it after a long walk, a two hour chat with all
> my therapists, much deep introspection, a workout with my personal
> trainer, and some chanting. {I live, after all, in No. CA.}
>
> Too bad ole Tony won't be reading this - well he wouldn't understand
> irony, apparently....
>
LOL
WebKatz
> >> news:gPtQc.165735$wH4.9...@twister.southeast.rr.com:
> >>
> >>
> >>> And even less reason to read the crap of Pollyannas with no taste
> >>> or
> >>>discrimination. Killfiled - Goodbye loser.
Good to see that the Spaz is still winning friends here at r.p.d. ;)
Dave
Frank ess
I keep trying to teach him his nickname goes on a separate line, as in:
"...discrimination. Killfiled - Goodbye
loser"
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Tony Spadaro
gone again.
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> Still popping out of killfiles, troll? No matter. three clicks and you are
> gone again.
Hey Tony,
I think you'd appreciate this little keyboard gizmo I got recently.
-It lets you program keyboard shortcuts (or anything else up to 256 actions)
into any one of it's 20 keys. I've got one button that I push which adds
folks to kill-files...all with one press.
Me-thinks you could benefit...
:)
It's great for other rutine tasks too...like rotations, photoshop stuff, or
anything else you can dream up. It's not cheap, but if you're interested,
it's called "X-Keys" and comes in several different configurations.
Here's the link:
www.xkeys.com
Think of this as my attempt to relieve those blisters you must surely have
on your PLONKING finger. :) Just think... You could avoid carpel tunnel
syndrome due to easier kill-filing!
-Mark M
Dave
> "Tony Spadaro" <tspa...@ncmaps.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
>>Still popping out of killfiles, troll? No matter. three clicks and you are
>>gone again.
>
>
> Hey Tony,
> I think you'd appreciate this little keyboard gizmo I got recently.
> -It lets you program keyboard shortcuts (or anything else up to 256 actions)
> into any one of it's 20 keys....
> You could avoid carpel tunnel
> syndrome due to easier kill-filing!
>
*That's* not what's giving the Spaz carpel tunnel :v)
Tony Spadaro
It wouldn't work with windows so I had to reboot and run the computer in dos
for several years after my wife had gone completely windows. When I got into
picture editing I went windows too and as of now only use one dos program -
which the macro program never would work with in the first place..
In short - I'm interested and am going to look it over. Right at the
moment I'm not doing a lot of writing where it would matter but that might
change.
Thanks!
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Mark M
> I used t have a wonderful macro program called SmartKeys (or similar
name)
> It wouldn't work with windows so I had to reboot and run the computer in
dos
> for several years after my wife had gone completely windows. When I got
into
> picture editing I went windows too and as of now only use one dos
program -
> which the macro program never would work with in the first place..
> In short - I'm interested and am going to look it over. Right at the
> moment I'm not doing a lot of writing where it would matter but that might
> change.
> Thanks!
They've got a nifty "strip" version (a single line of buttons) that fits
nicely above the F-keys on many keyboards if you don't need 20 keys. It's
nice, too, because the strip one has back-lit buttons. My 20-key version
can be configured to actually have 38 effective buttons by assigning one of
the twenty as a "shift" key of sorts. When you push the "shift" key (it can
be any of the 20), a light comes on to let you know that the key-pad is not
in shift mode. This is nice because it means you could have one full key
set for, say, Photoshop, and the other non-shifted set for all other stuff.
Whatever you want, though.
Tony Spadaro
That's a bit sticky -- although I have to admit I really only used SmartKey
for a few things in programs other than Wordstar, but even there I could
shift back and forth between my "Letter" macros, my "Fiction" macros and my
"Novel" macros. At one point I even had a "Screenplay" set that a friend
sent me, but I never used them.
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Mark M
> You can't have it programmed to do different things in different programs?
No. This is because it is designed to basically "type" specific keystrokes
for you. It does this extremely quickly, though you can put pauses between
strokes if, for some reason, your program needs a pause before the next
command is given.
> That's a bit sticky -- although I have to admit I really only used
SmartKey
> for a few things in programs other than Wordstar, but even there I could
> shift back and forth between my "Letter" macros, my "Fiction" macros and
my
> "Novel" macros. At one point I even had a "Screenplay" set that a friend
> sent me, but I never used them.
I find that I have WAY more buttons than I truly need.
I've got lots of un-used ones.
BTW--Each botton has a see-through "lid" under which you can put your own
labeling.
John McGraw
> "Craig" <brok...@heartattack.com> wrote in message news:<4110877d$0$7126$db0f...@news.zen.co.uk>...
> > http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/30/567901.jpg
> >
> > for quite some time because of the dark? But if this is so, surely the
> > ripples would be blurred? Also, to have the darkening in the corners... does
> > that indicate a certain filter, or would this be done with Photoshop or
> > something? Surely Photoshop is required for this photo?
>
> Lens: EFS 18-55 mm
> SANDISK Compact Flash Card 256Mb Type II
> and plenty of photoshopping...
>
> Some recent works by the same Lithuanian author:
> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/05/25/500703.jpg
> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/30/476040.jpg
> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/07/545478.jpg
> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/15/553505.jpg
> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/13/551026.jpg
Dear Igor
Please excuse my Internet ignorance, but are you saying that you are
the photographer of these incredible images? I think that is what you
are saying, but I'm not sure. And the unbelievable one of the backlit
castle with sunset? These are so good, I find myself dumbfounded by
them. Also are you saying the image of the pond / lake with the fuzzy
green trees http://www.pbase.com/image/32181860 is part of what was
photoshopped into the final castle photo? What a talent! Your gallery
is going into "My Favorites" John
Tony Spadaro
Keyboard macro set with windows, and one that can be switched out easily.
When I did the serious entry on my novel I was using just about every key
with a proper name on it -- cuts mispellings by about 1000% percent.
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Mark M
> I think I'll pass. There is no reason in the world why there cannot be a
> Keyboard macro set with windows, and one that can be switched out easily.
> When I did the serious entry on my novel I was using just about every key
> with a proper name on it -- cuts mispellings by about 1000% percent.
Like bilong yu.
Igor Sklar
> Dear Igor
> Please excuse my Internet ignorance, but are you saying that you are
> the photographer of these incredible images? I think that is what you
No, of course I'm not. Here is the repost of my original message which
actually started the thread:
> Each week the Russian Photosight selects the best photo of the week.
>
> This week they have chosen the photo of Trakai Castle by Ernest
> Brendel (ern...@skuba.nospam.lt):
> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/30/567901.jpg
Mr Brendel lives in Lithuania. For instance, the Trakai Castle, once
the chief residence of the great dukes of Lithuania, may be seen in
the background of the following photo:
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/30/476040.jpg
Here we have an image taken at the Curonian spit near Klaipeda:
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/07/545478.jpg
This is a shot of the Kernave archaeological area, recently added to
the World Heritage List:
http://img.photosight.ru/2004/07/23/560687.jpg
regards
Tony Spadaro
use all the help I can get -- This post has been spell checked.
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Mark M
> As you have probably noticed my typing accuracy rate is pretty poor. I can
> use all the help I can get -- This post has been spell checked.
Oops! Sorry. I wasn't teasing your spelling (don't usually pay attention
to that).
"Like beilong yu" is Papua New Guinea's Pigeon Enlgish version of "As you
wish(like)." :)
They would actually spell it "Laik bilong yu," as in "the preference is
yours."
Tony Spadaro
I once wrote an entire song in a south Pacific pigeon of some sort.
Every line came from an article on the subject in either Psychology Today or
Playboy -- other mags are possible but that was what the guy I was staying
with had most of around his apartment - there were some Scientific Americans
about too. The song was titled "Dis fella talk true" and the line above was
the first of the song -- I have no idea what the rest was now.
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