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[Allen in Montreal]

Nana,

I sort of agree about luck, but truly great photographers are great because they have wisdom and ability to do great things in that split second of opportunity!
Pure luck only brings a great picture once, your average is way beyond!
Well done.

I would not worry about throwing in some native tongue words, a translation is a click of a mouse away, and how could anyone be bothered by that, coming from such a positive and prolific contributor to the forum!

Well, this photo was a huge amount of luck! I was out just for trying a Cokin filter holder wich I had cut out, (I cutted out two of the filter guides) to see if there was any vigneting, with the Super Angulon 47. This stuff (I don't know the right name for these eolic generators, in english!) is about 1 mile from my house, I went there because I knew this could be a good place to do those experiments. This cloud apeared running really fast (the wind was really strong that day) when I was just ready to press the cable release. Incredibly, the cloud aligned exactly with the propeller!!!!
Sometimes I think the old "decisive moment" stuff has more to do with luck than with photographic skill!!!!
I think Cartier-Bresson was a lucky guy!!! He was, of course, a great photographer but also, a lucky one, I think!
Of course, there is a nice story about Wagner, who was accused by his composer and musician pairs of being a lucky guy because he was living near the king and nobles and he was being supported by them.
He answered the accusation like this:
"You are right, I am a lucky guy but, when the luck came to me I was working, at my piano!"

Sorry for my poor english but, that's the best I can do!!! I hope this is understandable!!!

Bloody net, nowadays I spend most of my day writing in english, french, spanish, etc.
Many times when I'm speaking my own language (portuguese) I find myself thinking in english, french, etc, trying to find the right portuguese word!!!!! And the biggest problem is to mantain a serious conversation in a foreign language! I hate it! It's so easy to look like a schmuck in a foreing language!!!!!

[Nana Sousa Dias]

Nana,

I sort of agree about luck, but truly great photographers are great because they have wisdom and ability to do great things in that split second of opportunity!
Pure luck only brings a great picture once, your average is way beyond!
Well done.

I would not worry about throwing in some native tongue words, a translation is a click of a mouse away, and how could anyone be bothered by that, coming from such a positive and prolific contributor to the forum!

Thank you very much, Allen!

Hey, do you live in Montreal, Canada?

[Colin Graham]

3 minutes, lucked out on a lull in the wind.

[Jiri Vasina]

Colin, that is quite extraordinary...

[Nana Sousa Dias]

3 minutes, lucked out on a lull in the wind.

Very nice photo!

[Colin Graham]

Thanks Jiri and Nana

[jvuokko]

Boulder on icy sea. 90mm f/64, one hour:


Cityscape reflections. 90mm f/22, 15 minutes:

[Steve M Hostetter]

Hello Jukka,, nice shots,,, how in the world was you able to figure out the exposure in that first shot?

[jvuokko]

Hello Jukka,, nice shots,,, how in the world was you able to figure out the exposure in that first shot?

Thank you!

When I visualized the image and begun the exposure, there were much more light. The night fell faster than I had expected, so after I realized that it's way too dark for my original exposure time (which was about 8 minutes) I thought about times when I did lot of star and sky photography. I remember that ISO 400 film and exposure time 8 seconds with f/4 gave usually bit too light skies at suburb areas.
I calculated the final time 1 hour from that exposure. The film I used was Neopan acros 100 which does not suffer much from reciprocity. Probably additional 1/2 EV (30 minutes) would done good for shadow values but after waiting of one hour, I was so frozen that I thought that one hour have to be enough

[Steve M Hostetter]

near the town of Flatrock IN
8x10 chrome 210mm @f32 for 12 sec.