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Subject: [OM] Re: pictures, imposters near misses and car adverts
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:31:21 -0400
Re: the RS4.  Very well done.  When are you going to start shooting 
commercially?

Re: Clouds.  My favorite was #5 but I preferred the color version to the 
B&W.  #5 might compete with Graham if you also showed the landscape 
underneath.  As it is I think it's only an abstract exercise in color 
which is why I prefer the color version.

Chuck Norcutt

swisspace wrote:

> With all this talk of imposters and after the lessons learnt on Tuesday 
> this week can I apply to be one, I now know that butane gas lamps work 
> quite well even when submerged in water, I knew I should have paid more 
> attention to chemistry before trying to do some plumbing in the  cellar, 
> I also learnt that you should exercise extreme caution when putting down 
> electric drills otherwise they can make nasty holes in things, 
> fortunately for me this time just the trousers I was wearing. Actually 
> these sort of things never used to happen to me so maybe I am the 
> imposter already  :-).
> 
> Finally I managed to see sense (reluctantly) and agree that my beloved 
> RS4 must be sold, so yesterday I cleaned it and took it to a nicer spot 
> than outside our house to do some promotional photos, once again the 
> fisheye comes useful. These shots are with the E1 but I also took some 
> shots with the OM4 and Bronica - I stupidly forgot to take a telephoto 
> because I couldn't capture the muscle from the arches with the wide 
> angles so I think standing back and using a telephoto would have been 
> much better, anyway your thoughts good and bad are welcome as always.
> http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/gallery/1966279
> 
> Spurred on by Graham's beautiful clouds I decided to test out if the 
> yellow filter works better for digital (E1) black and white, apart from 
> the fisheye I only have one coloured filter which hapens to be yellow 
> and is 100mm so it only fits the 180F2. I found esp worked best for 
> metering (normally I use centre weighted) but I think the colour shots 
> are generally nicer. The order is colour photo then black and white 
> version, converted in gimp with mode option) no other tweaks made. 
> thought and opinions welcome.
> 
> http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/gallery/1968647
> 
> cheers Ian
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