I'd like a little less sky - but all it all it is beautiful and painterly - not quite up to the joshua tree shot though,, but that's just me.
The joshua tree is special to me because of my love of the desert but also because it transcends the usually trite photos of them that one sees and captures the feeling of the area. Translation - I never got any I liked half as much as yours :) lol ann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At the beginning of my SW I allotted two day for fun and photography at >Yosemite. > >This is not my best shot, I think, but the most encompassing one, i.e., >showing the biggest area. Valley View, except I had to scoot down nearer the >river, >because they have allowed two bushes to grow as big as trees in front of the >designated Valley View. > >I was going to print this for the show I entered, but the top was light and >the bottom dark, so I played with it and played with it: lighten shadows, >brightness, contrast, selected areas, etc. I got about four variations I sort >of >liked, but not quite. > >Yosemite is metering/exposure challenge, at least at any time other than >sunrise and sunset, white rock, blue sky, heavily shadowed areas below. > >Note that even when I had only done a little to this, like lightening shadows >a bit, it still looked unreal. > >I gave up in frustration on all my versions and finally came up with this. >Printed big it looks pretty good. Could use more work here and there, but >going >with it for now. > >Here is a Yosemite postcard for you... > >http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/postcard.htm > >Hehehe, comments welcome. > >Marnie aka Doe :-) Usually I like to comment on others' PESOs before dumping >another of mine out, but don't have time right now. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
