Rayetta’s Landscapes
Weeks ago, I happened to be standing on the porch when Ogma arose. So I took this picture. It did not turn out as I anticipated. I thought, when I took the picture, that the sky in the background would be red, and the foreground would not be red. At least not this red. So all the red somehow got suffused into the vegetation.
posted by ray pistrum at Saturday, December 15, 2007
4 Comments:
Dr. P.,
Cameras and light are simple. Double the light and get the next lighter shade of whatever. Halve the light and get the next darker shade. Of course, doubling stops at white; halving stops at black. Reddish morning light from the sky was doubled a few too many times and thus it and its buddies green and blue are maxed out at white.
You probably already knew this and your comment was a test.
The end of the test answer is that you should ask the camera to make the sky a little bit lighter than gray. The sky will then be reddish, and everything else will be shades of black otherwise known as a silhouette.
Trying to get both the bushes and the sky as shades of gray is too much trouble most of the time.
The Plant List Requestor
Dr. P.,
Alternatively, photographs don't lie, and we are seeing the correct view. Thanks, it was worth seeing.
TPLR
TPRL,
Nope. I did not know all that.
Nope. I don't think we are seeing the correct view. At least not as I remember the correct view. Although, I was fiddling around in live view and messing with settings so time may have elapsed from the time I was looking east, at the sky, and the time I was looking down and fiddling with the camera.
Some of the vegetation, the little bluestem around Crumby's shrub, is red. Just not this red.
Well. It figures. This is, after all, Red's CB. So maybe, this is Red's magic at work.
By the way, the exif file, if you are interested, is not much help. Often, I open these in one PP program, and then another PP program later. That's before Ray gets hold of them for the venue. So the exifs may get goofed up during the process. The exif for this one, for example, shows the wrong time for the original. That really aggravates me. Some electric highjinks may be at work.
Glad you thought it was worth looking at, Me too.
A Welcome Before You,
Dr. Pistrum
Oh! P.S.
I don't remember doing anything in PP to this one. I was too shocked by the original.
Rayetta
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