Steve Barbour showed: Subject: [LRflex] tahoe, near sunset.... > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2010/tahoe.jpg.html Hi Steve, A fine clean poster shot advertising "Come canoe in Nevada on Lake Tahoe this summer, clean water, blue skies, a place of beauty!" :-) Now if it were a photograph for use in National Geo and one of their photogs were about to shoot this they'd pull out their mandatory bag of photo tricks before shooting. :-) Probably some where in perfect balance would be a red ( always red) canoe... It had been part of the photogs props carried on top of his travelling vehicle. Then he or she would stir up a couple of people and supply the absolutely colour perfect matching clothes. Then direct them to exactly where they should be in the canoe for a perfect balanced photograph. The readers when they saw this magnificent published photograph would get wet pants with envy and the brilliant talents of those National Geographic photographers and the most magnificent scenes they always managed to find. :-) Yep the props were always near by to enhance the scenes. You really didn't believe they just happened to get lucky and find all that neat coloured sports clothes, boats, fish and whatever else would make a smashing brilliant double truck spread did you folks? :-) Oh yeah and their assistants who went before them finding the locations using one of the National Parks Rangers or guides. Yep that's the way they worked! Their shooters doing summer shoots wherever, always had all the extra colourful sporting clothes and any other accessories required to shoot brilliant photographs. Now another tale of how they always had the right stuff! :-) And always "Picture Perfect!" :-) cheers, Dr. ted ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/