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29-JUN-2009	Bruce Jones

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ctfchallenge		01-Jun-2009 03:44
Were there pirates there too - and a pot of gold? This is so pretty. Penny Street

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 23:30
Wow! No time to read all the chit chat here, but will say this is a great looking shot Bruce. ~Brent

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 08:25
Rod Correction I meant to say in my post just under Konstantins post that I "try" to never get BHs in my picys....Not that I never get BHs......Be nice wouldn't it.

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 08:21
Rod Exact same shot, I would have to agree to get the same shot but it doesn't have to be the exact same shot does it? You could have 5 competent photographers all go out to get the best shot they can get of this boat. We will give them the instruction that we want a shot from the front. It's very likely you will get 5 different shots. There would be a good chance that BH won't be in the picy. I'm reasonably certain that's the street light blown it's not the sun. He only had to turn slightly to the right & one step forward to get much the same shot of the boat but the building would be gone & that horrible lamp:-)

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 08:09
Rod, it's obvious ... sure you can change the position of shooting or wait until sun goes down or go to an another place and do a wonderful shot ... but if you want to shot this particularly composition with the sun reflecting in the building then the merging is the only way to do this. The brightness range of this particularly view is to wide to be covered in one single shot. If we say f.e. that the darkest point here is a 0 and the brightest on is 100 then even the better camera would be able to shot let say 10 to 40 or 50 to 90 whatever. No camera is able to shot this without “climbing”/”losing info” in dark or bright areas. A HDR is the only solution for pictures like this. Konstantin

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 07:00
Rod I don't know what you mean by the only way to get this picy is by merging. There's plenty of ways to get a shot very similar to this by just recomposing. He maybe could have stayed in the same spot & shot vertical to keep that lamp out of the picy or he could have took his exposure more with the lamp in mind, who knows. I never get distracting BHs in my picys because I'm aware of them at the time of shooting & I work to either control them or recompose them out of the picy. The best way to get a good picy is at the time of taking it a. There's no setting sun here Aamm.

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 02:36
Excellent composition, as usual, and very well on topic. The lights are distortioon for me. I tryed to reduce these a bit (see in pending) but the onle way to manage scenes like this, I'm afraid, is a merging together many dufferent exposures. Konstantin

aam1234		30-May-2009 02:04
That BH is from the setting sun more than the light bulb (though they overlap). My beef is with the WB (naturally).

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 01:49
Rod Maybe I could tolerate a BH from a light source too but here it's three times the size of the others making it's presence too prominent for me especially wiv the building as a background for it.

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 01:42
I figure it's "Roseway", she has a few webpages:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseway Good POV and composition. Great effect on the bowsprit! -k2

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 01:28
This schooner looks familiar - does it travel up to NYC. Can't make out the name. I don't find the burnout objectionable coming from the lightbulb as it is. Impossible lighting made tolerable in a pocket camera. Impresive. -tv

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 00:58
Rod Yes an excellent wide angle looking picy with a nice looking exposure. The first light is a bit of a bother but apart from shooting from a different point of view there's not a lot you could do with it being it's so close.

ctfchallenge		30-May-2009 00:11
Nice work Bruce and I'm not sure how you could have handled those lights. Like the others have said, you might want to set the clock on your camera. -Doug

aam1234		29-May-2009 22:05
Personally, I like that BH there. It makes the lighting logical in the photo (or something like that :) Good catch, Peta. Bruce's time must be traveling faster than ours. Back to the Future! He he :)

Guest		29-May-2009 17:54
OMG doesn't time fly - doesn't the shot date knock this out of eligible ? :-) love the boat but agree with debi re the lights. ---peta

Guest		29-May-2009 13:18
The blown out lights are a distraction. Otherwise I like this pic - Debi

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