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Post by Jason Thompson on Jan 15, 2006 17:49:33 GMT -4
Just as a matter of interest, I checked out the CD ROM that comes with the NASA Mission Reports volume 1 of Apollo 11 and had a look at the colour photos.
In contrast to the HB claim that the pictures are all perfect, I found 32 pictures that were undeniably 'bad' images from any photographic standpoint. Several were blurred, several had the intended subject just out of frame, and several were obviously accidental exposures. One of them is a perfectly focused shot of one of the LM landing struts, but the whole image is tilted at 45 degrees to the frame of the picture, so surely was not intentionally taken!
Of the other few hundred so many were just of the lunar landscape in such a way it would have been impossible to make a bad picture anyway: literally the camera was just pointed and shot. If there's no obvious intended subject apart from the landscape as a whole it's hard to screw them up.
So, that's 32 bad pictures from just the colour magazines of one mission. Proof of lack of research if ever I saw it. The whole exercise took me ten minutes!
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Post by Count Zero on Jan 15, 2006 20:32:55 GMT -4
Good work. A classic example is the original picture of Buzz: It's badly tilted, and so far off-center that the top of Buzz's PLSS & antenna is cut off. When this picture is published, it's usually rotated & cropped. Neil had a strong tendency to rotate the camera to the left. When you look at the pictures as a group, that sort of thing really leaps out at you.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 15, 2006 20:47:38 GMT -4
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Post by BertL on Jan 16, 2006 11:51:56 GMT -4
What a perfect picture! The thing must be a hoax!
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Post by bughead on Jan 16, 2006 16:10:10 GMT -4
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS16-107-17446This is one of my favorites. Professional photogs learn early on to avoid the "tree growing out of grandma's head" shot. I'm a black-and-white photographer. As I crawl thru the image archives I'm occasionally tripped up by a flash of gold mylar, or the flag, or an orange frame from magazine changes fogging the film. There I am looking at B&W images, and then I'm reminded that the film was color, the location was monochrome!
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