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Message # 9179.2.1.1.1

Subject: This looks like..

Date: Mon 15/03/04 04:05:02 GMT

Name: ray

Email: ray_diaz1@yahoo.com

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The moonface shot looks like a problem I have at the beach at times... The sun can be so bright, that if you don't go up to within a foot of the subject to get a correct exposure, and/or use fill in flash.. that shadows are overpowering. I submit a hastily found sample from what I remember as a vary sunny windy Sunday morning.. The girls where out quite aways from me because the waves were quite high and I was close to shore (cameras and salt water don't mix). The fuzzyness is from the digital zoom, which I since have learned to disable.

http://www.wetfreespirit.org/tmp/forum/julie3.jpg

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Re: Actually...Example

By Sopping - katakai@verizon.net Mon 15/03/04 02:34:07 GMT

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Look at today's "Moonface" posting to see what I mean.

Moonface/Turtle Farm have taken and posted a lot of wetlook photos. The girl in the water at the beach is one of their primary themes. The post a lot of good stuff, some excellent stuff, and far-too-many backlites, IMHO.

But they are mesmerized by the art aspects of backlighting.

Look!

http://www.themoonface.com/information/today.html

I can fix this with my photo program, but "doshite?." [I think that is the way "why" is spelled in Japanese.] If not "Kerry-san" can correct me.

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Actually...

By ray - ray_diaz1@yahoo.com Mon 15/03/04 01:53:18 GMT

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Thanks for the compliment Anthony, but I use quite modest equipment, my current camera is a Kodak 4800, but with a digital camera, you can experiment a lot! And it helps to be close to the beach and have a willing model who loves to get wet.. :-)

I may take 100 to 200 photos to get 20 to 40 useable ones. Some photo sessions turn out to be absolute flops.. as my experimenting failed miserably, while some turn out really great. The two pics here were in a batch of about a hundred photos and only about 5 turned out really good...

I particularly like the definition in the small waves breaking behind Julie in the first photo, this detail would have been lost in a different light.

I'm gonna dig around and see if I can find some other interesting photos as the other the other postings on this forum right now are not being very positive... :-(

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Re: Back and For lighting

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Mon 15/03/04 01:30:31 GMT

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Yup... when the backlight turns the subject into a dark silhouette, there's not much wetlook left to appreciate.

I think this is really advice for the novice photographer, or someone with limited equipment, and obviously doesn't apply to Ray, who does excellent work.

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Back and For lighting

By ray - ray_diaz1@yahoo.com Sun 14/03/04 23:46:12 GMT

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I have another controversy to add to the forum... Sopping started it... and now I think it is high time we have it out... LOL Backlighting or not... :-)

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