[LRflex] Re: tahoe, near sunset....
- From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:30:08 -0700
On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:52 PM, <tedgrant@xxxxxxx> <tedgrant@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve Barbour showed:
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> Subject: [LRflex] tahoe, near sunset....
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2010/tahoe.jpg.html
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>
> Hi Steve,
> A fine clean poster shot advertising "Come canoe in Nevada
I will have you know this is not Nevada, this is California.... :-)
> 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!" :-)
:-)
thanks, Ted,
Steve
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted
>
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