If you can pull-off that one, I agree, it would improve the shot -a brighter bottom would feel more balanced methinks. I feel that trying that in post might end up looking artificial though.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > Thanks Fernando. I agree, I think you would look good printed big! > > Color theory is one of those topics that I can understand but fail to grasp > in any detail. Your description is useful. > I could fiddle with postprocessing but what I would like to do is to > replicate this shot tonight with just a bit more sunset glow on the corn in > the foreground, but with the lighting/color about the same in the upper > portions. We'll see . . . > > stan > > On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Fernando wrote: > >> I like the moon one. I would look great printed big, I think. >> >> It caught my attention, because I'm reading some stuff on colour >> theory -to see if I can improve my colour photography- and the >> yellow-orange of the moon contrasts well with the violet colour of the >> sky -opposites in the colour wheel: >> http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm >> >> and the amount of colour on the yellow moon and the sky is somewhat >> balanced as you have a lot of violet in the sky vs small amount in the >> moon (Yellow = 9 / Orange = 8 vs Violet = 3) >> http://www.framedreality.com/color-in-photography-color-theory >> >> and that explains why my eyes go first to the moon, then down to the >> crops in the bottom, and finish on the barn. It also has a nice >> calming mood to it. >> >> Anyways, what I meant to say is that I like it. >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Stan Halpin >> <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: >>> That undergrowth be mature corn. Over the which I was not tall enough to >>> see. >>> >>> We (my neighbor and I) chose the site because of the barn. We wanted a long >>> view, over a field, something interesting (like the barn) mid-distance, >>> with the moon low in the sky. But we miscalculated a bit plus there was >>> low-lying haze on the horizon. The sun didn't set until well after the moon >>> rose, by the time the moon looked like a moon rather than a white blob, it >>> was too high in the sky to be able to make the barn a more prominent >>> element. We'll go back tomorrow, the sun sets a few minutes earlier, the >>> moon rises 20 minutes later, and we have a better feel for the angles now. >>> Back to the undergrowth/corn: I have many shots taken from a few feet to >>> the left, a point which allows me to look along the roadside edge of the >>> corn field. And some from a bit further back, higher on the crown of the >>> road we were on. I felt that this one that used the corn field as the >>> foreground was less cluttered and allowed the focus to be on the barn and >>> moon. >>> >>> Thanks for looking Jack! >>> >>> stan >>> >>> >>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Jack Davis wrote: >>> >>>> Really well done exposure balance. If only the barn were somewhat more >>>> prominent. The undergrowth gets in the way, but my guess is it's >>>> considered needed to obstruct some unwanted feature(s).(?) >>>> >>>> Jack >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> >>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <PDML@pdml.net> >>>> Cc: >>>> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:40 PM >>>> Subject: PESO: Harvest Moon >>>> >>>> From earlier this evening: http://smhalpin.posterous.com/harvest-moon >>>> >>>> The previous two entries in the blog include a color and a B&W version of >>>> an egret. Comments on any or all are welcome. >>>> >>>> stan >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ >> >> -- >> 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. > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- 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.
