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Wish I hadn't gone back to reshoot!
Sometimes it seems true that you can't go home again:-(
In New Mexico along I 40 at the Continental Divide , there is a real old Navaho hogan which I photographed from the road last September. I had stopped to buy some Indian jewelry at one of the tourist trading posts and noticed the hogan. I took a few shots with my E10 ,since I'd driven all night from California I wasn't thinking clearly and forgot to check the aperture and later discovered the slightly blurred foreground.Actually I shot on program mode and focused on the hogan. This bothered me for months and I decided to reshoot it on my drive from Joshua Tree to Alabama 2 weeks ago. When I got there I almost felt like crying- toilet paper all over the tree to the left of the hogan, cloudless bright sky, the vegetation of course was brown now, and I discovered that there was a backyard which I hadn't noticed before. This time I shot with my Nikon EM and the photos were the worst ever! I learned my lesson finally. From now on before I take the shot I'll think more about visualising the final print and how I can make it happen and not be in such a hurry and rushing through with the camera's program mode! Sorry for the rant but they say confession is good for the soul! Bill Mcdonald in Joshua Tree |
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"Bill Mcdonald" wrote in message
... .....cut.... later discovered the slightly blurred foreground.....cut.... Hey Bill, tell me you have photoshop......................thing in there called layers................replace your blurry stuff with some part of another photo. Nothing like cheatin' a little with this digital dew stuff...................I have a couple neat pics nobody knows how I got'em After all, who but you were there? Shoot'em up, real or imagined, Agfa, Fuji, Kodak and all the rest will love you for it!! Jim |
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Wish I hadn't gone back to reshoot!
Had the same problem myself last week ! Only slightly strange as well.
On Sun 6th, I was riding along a lane in the morning and saw some lovely poppies by the side of the road at the edge of a field, so I stopped, got off my bike and proceeded to take a few shots, F4.5 to throw out the background and low angle looking down the edge of the field. A nice tribute I thought to our lost boys, seeing as it was the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. Got home and downloaded images to PC, not bad but I thought I could do better, so I decided I would go out againwhen I finished work the next day. Got back there the next day, and poppies were nowhere to be seen ? Looked around thinking I had gone back to the wrong place or somebody had picked them. Looked around a bit more and saw that every petal had fallen from the flowers, there wasn't one left on them ! Don't know why this happened, but strange considering that when I took the pics, 60 years to the day many men were just landing on the beaches, and the day that after many had fallen. Adam |
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Wish I hadn't gone back to reshoot!
Bill Mcdonald wrote in
: Sometimes it seems true that you can't go home again:-( In New Mexico along I 40 at the Continental Divide , there is a real old Navaho hogan which I photographed from the road last September. I had stopped to buy some Indian jewelry at one of the tourist trading posts and noticed the hogan. I took a few shots with my E10 ,since I'd driven all night from California I wasn't thinking clearly and forgot to check the aperture and later discovered the slightly blurred foreground.Actually I shot on program mode and focused on the hogan. This bothered me for months and I decided to reshoot it on my drive from Joshua Tree to Alabama 2 weeks ago. When I got there I almost felt like crying- toilet paper all over the tree to the left of the hogan, cloudless bright sky, the vegetation of course was brown now, and I discovered that there was a backyard which I hadn't noticed before. This time I shot with my Nikon EM and the photos were the worst ever! I learned my lesson finally. From now on before I take the shot I'll think more about visualising the final print and how I can make it happen and not be in such a hurry and rushing through with the camera's program mode! Sorry for the rant but they say confession is good for the soul! Unfortunately, it's the lessons we learn the hard way that stay with us the best. Had my share of those. But at the same time, I've returned to locations and discovered more, or realized what kind of opportunities it had. Maybe not necessarily the missed shot I envisioned, but something else of merit, sometimes almost as good, sometimes even better. Maybe you can't go home again, but sometimes you can go to the same place and find a new one. When I travel now, I rarely have a specific photo destination in mind, but instead "play it by ear". Something along the way might inspire me, or the weather might redirect me. But this way, I'm usually not disappointed because I'm on a voyage of discovery, as it were, and not chasing that one crucial shot. Last weekend, I had a goal in mind, and went out looking for it. Never found it, but shot over a hundred frames anyway, items of opportunity. I'm still after that goal, but I think I'm way ahead ;-) - Al. -- To reply, insert dash in address to match domain below Online photo gallery at www.wading-in.net |
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"Bill Mcdonald" :
... Sometimes it seems true that you can't go home again:-( true 200%% imho you should shoot anything you want to picture right then & there anyway that vision of some things/moments is unique almost every time just a day before/after or a few steps forth/back and all the magic is gone i find that stopping/taking-some-time/looking-quitly-around is one of the main things in my photography that (frankly saying) i can't achieve all the time - also laziness keeps whispering inside that i can always return then conditions can be better or after some rest or blah blah endless about 5 weeks ago i was walking in early morning back to the hut from heath-cock's display ground knee deep in snow across swamp & cold after a copule of hours sitting still in shelter hot tea & breakfast & rest was waiting ahead i had boots filled with water & sack filled with game & loaded camera & even tripod suddenly i saw that rising sun began to filter through low clouds the colors were the ones i never experience old dry grass was dark orange & pines like blue-green watercolor & at least clouds in 4 different greys i stopped & looked my fellows asked me what's the matter with me at that moment i thought "the tripod is sure cold & i should take off my rucksack to get the camera & .... tiny treacherous voice inside" so not more then two hours after i came back & found nothing and the next morning i was fishing drowned snowmobile and the .... may be next year Sorry for the rant but they say confession is good for the soul! hopelessly hope so Bill Mcdonald in Joshua Tree luck -- ian green Xeto : photo & graphic project : http://xeto.front.ru photo galleries @ BlurryImage : http://www.blurryimage.com/user/ian%20green selected photography : http://ian_green.photosight.ru/ .. EOF |
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Wish I hadn't gone back to reshoot!
ian green wrote:
"Bill Mcdonald" : ... Sometimes it seems true that you can't go home again:-( true 200%% imho you should shoot anything you want to picture right then & there anyway that vision of some things/moments is unique almost every time Amen brother. This also leads to the golden rule - always carry at least an extra roll more of film that you think you would need [digital people, change this to an extra memory card]. -- ian green Xeto : photo & graphic project : http://xeto.front.ru photo galleries @ BlurryImage : http://www.blurryimage.com/user/ian%20green selected photography : http://ian_green.photosight.ru/ . EOF -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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Wish I hadn't gone back to reshoot!
"Sander Vesik" :
... Sometimes it seems true that you can't go home again:-( true 200%% imho you should shoot anything you want to picture right then & there anyway that vision of some things/moments is unique almost every time Amen brother. This also leads to the golden rule - always carry at least an extra roll more of film that you think you would need [digital people, change this to an extra memory card]. back in winter there was one endless thread in rec.photo.equipment.35mm listing all the things you should take with you then going out shooting - "other photo tools" if i remember it right & Alan Browne was hosting it somewhere -- ian green Xeto : photo & graphic project : http://xeto.front.ru photo galleries @ BlurryImage : http://www.blurryimage.com/user/ian%20green selected photography : http://ian_green.photosight.ru/ .. EOF |
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