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Growing Up in Dad's Shadow


Landrum Kelly

Exposure Date: 2010:10:08 17:18:40;
Make: Canon;
Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II;
Exposure Time: 1/500.0 seconds s;
FNumber: f/5.6;
ISOSpeedRatings: ISO 100;
ExposureProgram: Other;
ExposureBiasValue: 0
MeteringMode: Other;
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode;
FocalLength: 70.0 mm mm;
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows;


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I'm wondering if a crop showing just the two towers and correcting for converging verticals would work better, thus removing distractions to the left & right. Super light!

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Excellent.  Gotta love that light.  Could have been Tulsa, where I come from, but the tank is a bit stranger.  The bullseye is fantastic.  You probably took a bunch to see which was best??

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Thanks, Simon.  I might crop on each side.  I have already taken out most of the wide-angle distortion with the Perspective Correction tool, although a bit yet remains. 

--Lannie

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Jamie, I missed you in passing.  You're from Tulsa??  I had you pegged as quintessentially British, living in Manchester and posting from there through three different personae.

Yes, I took a number of shots of this tank complex.  I am not sure if this is the one that I will stay with or not.  This was shot the same day that I shot the railroad tracks (that you recently critiqued), the dogs on the old farm by the highway, the barn at "deep purple," the blue house shot, and quite a number of others using two different cameras.

Overall, it was a good day to be out, except for the episode at the end which I have previously told you about.

--Lannie

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Lannie: Clever title!  Something is a little out of square and some additional cropping is in order and the right side.  Tom

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Tom, I knew that some clever so-and-so would notice and tell me that something was not quite right here.

I will go back to it and work on it, but I cannot bring myself to do it just now.  The problem is that I missed the horizon badly on this shot, and so I had to try to correct both the horizon as well as the wide angle distortion together--and it just got messier and messier until I simply said, "This is going up as is, warts and all!"  Dawn was approaching at that point. . . .

Thanks for looking long enough to notice.  it is actually positively weird, if you look at it long enough.  For a while there, on one version, the columns got wider and wider apart as one went up. . .  .

Yes, more work is required--or perhaps I should say less work, properly done.

It's still over there, less than four miles from my house.  It would be easier to simply re-shoot, I think--and then do one quick fix in perspective correction to fix the wide angle distortion.

As for cropping, I am of divided soul--between making a prettier shot, on the one hand, and making one that shows more of the environs, on the other.

--Lannie

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oh yes.  England is a great place though.  I feel at home here.

Leica makes a lens attachment that delivers a burst of mace.  A little on the expensive side, of course, but how can you put a price on safety?  Get the very best.

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I'd enjoy seeing bullseyes for which the rings are more evenly spaced (earlier or later image).  I realise that would mean fewer rings, but I think it would make it more obvious that they are shadows of the uprights.

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Yes, Jamie, and even better might be a time-lapse sequence.  It would not be hard to do, after all.

As for these two ships, the countdown till launch will recommence at 1500 hours.

--Lannie

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Lannie:  Thank you for calling me a so and so.   It's the best compliment I've had in weeks. LOL  Tom

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