> The building is right behind her partly obscured by trees so it's pretty
> distracting, plus the horizon runs through her head so it's even more
busy
> looking. I thought you could examine the final shots with a magnifier
but
> I guess not. I would suggest keep trying for another shot :-) Getting
down
> to her level when the horizon is visible (through the trees) caused that
> horizon through the face but not if there's shrubs in the background or
a
> hill or I don't know, maybe get even lower & have her head above the
> horizon.
>
Regarding being able to examine final image with magnifier, etc, sometimes
it's possible.
If a shot is really contrasty and there isn't much detail, like a dark
silhouette on a bright background, or a really bright subject on a really
dark background, there's a good chance I can at least make out object
placement. When the shot is like this one, with varying shades of
differing
colours that tend to fall into a similar range, lots of detail, I can't do
much with it. In particular, a mixture of greys, light browns and greens
really messes up my residual vision.
On-screen magnification via a program like magnify is very useful, since
it
gives me the ability to play with colours by inversion or changing size,
but
I couldn't do much with this one.
Also, I'm under the gun a bit. Dima will be returning to Guide Dogs soon,
and I'm trying to get a frameable shot before she goes back. I could get
someone else to take the shot, but I'd like to take one myself to hang
beside the shot I took of my first guide, Bonner. It's the principle of
doing it myself in tribute of my guide that is more im****tant to me than
the
aesthetics of the actual shot.
I had more useable sight when I took Bonner's pic, so it turned out quite
nice, an 11 x 14 Cibachrome of him lying on a beach near Vancouver. With
a
bit of luck and persistence, I'll get one of Dima to go along with it.
But, from the sounds of it, I think you are right, I'll just scrub that
one
and start from scratch.
Thanks a bunch,
Dudley
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