Flamingos at sunset

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Laguna Colorada, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Canon Z135 Point 'n Shoot (@135).

-- Tuvik Beker (tuvik@cns.tau.ac.il), March 31, 2001

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GREAT PICTURE!!! But I think if you shoot it by an SLR camera, you can put a gradual neutral density filter to balance the light of the upper and lower part of the picture. The moon picture is properly exposed that you can see its detail. What is the white line on the horizon just below the mountain?

-- Poniman Mulijadi (pn_photo@yahoo.com), April 02, 2001.

Very nice scene. The water seems to be slanted a bit; suggest rotating the picture about a half degree clockwise at a time until it corrects. Getting a perfectly straight horizon is very hard unles you have a grid on the focusing screen. The high contrast tolerance of print film has a lot to do wth the success of this shot; this would not have turned out as well on slide. Not sure that a neutral density grad would have helped as much; maybe some. A polarizer might have darkened the sky a little while leaving the rest of the scene as is, but the uneven blueness of the sky would have turned out even more pronounced. As is, a good shot.

-- Christian Deichert (torgophile@aol.com), April 03, 2001.

Thank you both for the comments. The photo is indeed a bit slanted. I fixed it in the framing of the print and will try to do the same with the scan as you suggested, Christian. I think it indeed ows a lot to the color negative film used.

Using an SLR and trying polarizer or ND filters would have been interesting to try. However reality is often quite different than textbook photography. In the case of that picture I had no SLR, and in fact no camera at all with me, after my old camera had stopped functioning a few weeks earlier in the Amazonian rainforest. I borrowed my sister's p&s, and a tiny flexible tripod, and had to somehow stabilize it on the salty and muddy bank of the lake. Luckily, it sort of worked.

As for the white line on the horizon below the mountain - it's the crystalized salt on the far shore.

-- Tuvik Beker (tuvik@cns.tau.ac.il), April 04, 2001.


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