Moose,
I really like that landscape photo in the rain (the second photo you
posted). I also love bad weather. Nice, sunny days depress me, because I
hate the way the light looks for photographs!
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On 11/5/12 2:13 AM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Mike over at TOP has been going on about cameras again. Fell in imaginary
>love (hadn't seen/used one) with the output
>files from the Nikon D800e. He is convinced that it is the answer to his
>long term dissatisfaction with digital B&W.
>
>He'd just put up the folding 4x5 camera he acquired with such fanfare no
>long ago. Now, he was going to sell everything,
>and buy an 800e. Many, many replies spoke of many aspects, including the
>novel ideas that it's more than the camera that
>makes the images he admires, and that a rental would be a wise first step.
>
>So now he's renting one, and posted "I'm not good at photographing during
>a small window?and we'll probably have bad
>weather for precisely the duration, with my luck?but we shall see what we
>can see."
>
>I, among others, replied taking him to task for preparing himself for
>failure. My post contained links to three B&W
>images taken in "bad" weather" I thought you folks might like to see some
>Moose B&W:
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>
>"?and we'll probably have bad weather for precisely the duration, with my
>luck?"
>
>Oh, Pshaw!
>
>"Bad" weather just presents different opportunities for photography - and
>lots of opportunities to explore B&W tonalities.
>
>Find something ordinary indoors that you've ignored before. Indoor light
>is often beautiful, often because it is dim.
><http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/North
>East_2012/Massachussetts/Hamilton&image=_9282288BW.jpg>
>Isn't the D800 a master of low light? (Although this was taken with a
>camera you already have.)
>
>Shoot through a torrential downpour - through a window will do fine.
><http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/North
>East_2010/Coastal%20Maine/Mt_Desert_and_Acadia/Miscellaneous&image=_MG_113
>6BW.jpg>
>
>Shoot just as the sun comes out as rain is ending.
><http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/North
>East_2010/Coastal%20Maine/Mt_Desert_and_Acadia/Miscellaneous&image=_MG_114
>2-43BW.jpg>
>
>No Excuses \;~)>
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>
>Most of you will already have seen the color versions of these.
>
>B. W. Moose
>
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