[ratpack] Re: Does this work?
- From: Michael Wells <mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:25:00 -0700
OK, take another look at my gallery from Saturday's race. You'll see the guy
pointing to the driver to get the key to the locking gas cap. Another funny
moment, I got a shot of one of the Miller drivers driving the 88 black
Mustang on the front straight west of the tower so he's doing about 100 MPH
and he's looking right at me taking his picture. This was taken early in the
race so there were no updates from his crew or anything I was standing there
by myself. I'd like to know what he was thinking. Does anybody know where I
can find the results of the race and a roster of the cars & drivers?
Michael
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Could we try for the 21st? The 14th and 15th are the dates for the last
> event at El Mirage. I'm seriously considering going there...since I've
> never been to an event on the dry lakes.
>
> I agree about background. I guess it's all part of composition of the
> photo that ya do before ya press the shutter release. Other things like do
> ya want the horizon level or do ya have too much foreground? That one's
> tough for me, cuz I wanna put the subject of the photo right in the middle
> and that can leave a whole lotta stuff in the foreground. I'll use my own
> stuff as bad examples...and at least point out what I've learned this year.
>
>
> Photo 324 (the silver Mustang) is 1) more or less centered in the photo
> vertically and 2) it's closer to the left side of the photo than the right.
> The other way of saying it is that the car has less room to go than where it
> came from. I had this beaten into my head quite a bit this year...the idea
> being that there should be more room for the car or bike to go when compared
> to where it's been. I was told that photo editors would crop the back end
> off a car in order to get it to "look right" with more leading space than
> trailing.
>
> A different crop of it (324a) shows the car positioned differently in the
> photo...off-center vertically and horizontally, less foreground and more
> leading space than trailing. I dunno if I can say that the 2nd one would
> make its way into a magazine where the 1st one would be rejected...but the
> 2nd crop is what I'm looking for now as the result of what I've seen and
> been told. The other thing is that the watermark is not as prominent and
> I've saturated the color a little more.
>
> I'll make another post about print size and image size.
>
> I'd love comments on these...anyone's ideas, what they've learned, seen,
> etc.
>
> RtR
>
>
>
> At 04:16 PM 11/2/2009, you wrote:
>
> Speaking of getting together....How about Nov.14?
>
> Getting the dude out of the photo did clean it up a lot.
>
> The only thing that I could think of that would make the photo stand out is
> a different position. My first thought was that if Ray had been several
> feet to the left, then you would see what the guy was filming/
> interviewing. That would have told more of a story to me. The bike in the
> foreground, the builder/ rider being filmed/interviewed in the background.
> Like Carl said we need to be aware of background.
>
> Paul
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Larry Knight <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 4:09 PM
> Subject: [ratpack] Re: Does this work?
>
> Now that is lovely, nice work Ray. I know Paul would print it 30 x 20
> and bring it to our next meeting.
>
> On a similar subject, I'll bring one of mine I blew up and hate. We
> talked about size of photo vs size of print a little. This will show you
> what I meant and maybe you guys can see if you have ever had a cropped
> picture do this to you, but I'll bring it, we will talk
>
> I'll shut back up again
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [
> mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ]
> On Behalf Of Ray Buck
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:56 PM
> To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ratpack] Re: Does this work?
>
> No need to quit. This list is for posting to, so if ya got something to
> say, go for it. Since the last version of the bike photo, I hired a hit
> man and had the 2 guys in the photo wiped out. Nobody but us chickens
> here now.
>
> I gotta go lie down. I still feel like dog shit.
>
> RtR
>
>
> At 03:43 PM 11/2/2009, you wrote:
> >Ray,
> >I like it better, but that guy is still standing there, I am sorry to
> >say.
> >(sorry for this flurry of e-mails, I'll quit now) Resend if you do
> >clone brush him out, I like the shot!!
> >Lar
>
>
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Michael Wells
MCWells Photography
mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx
801-850-7279
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