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Date/Time:2008-Aug-16 09:07:00
Subject:Re: color and panoramas

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wwp@yahoogroups.com: Re: color and panoramas Keith Martin 2008-Aug-16 09:07:00
Sometime around 15/8/08 (at 17:20 -0500) Caroling Geary said:

>Some of my color experiences seem elusive. I've seen rainbows and
>flashing spectrums of colored light in running water in streams that
>I never catch in the photo. Rainbows too, never look as radiant in my
>photos.

The problem there is usually that you need to underexpose slightly, 
but yep, rainbows and similar phenomena are notoriously difficult to 
capture effectively. :-)

And with the flashing spectrums in running water, that's an 
interesting observation. The camera captures a literal instant in 
time, whereas we tend to use memory as well so that we remember 
multiple ones as a kind of collective visual experience.

(I'm struggling to put this into words, but perhaps you get the gist. 
A subtle but very interesting difference between mechanical and 
experiential visualising.)

k

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