I think it is the most frustrating and most rewarding shot I've taken in a long time. It's a 3 horizontal stitch from a 17 TS lens, constantly adjusting the shutter speed to get the wave and cloud action I wanted. The sun never quite made it above the ridge, it kind of moved horizontally and lit up clouds to my right as it came up. It did give me what I wanted though, and that in spades.
But... if you want the recipe for this, here's how it's done: first you forget to bring a remote control, and then you spend about 50 shots shooting with the 2s delay and trying to predict wave action 2s ahead. Then you punch the camera (multiple times, but I lost count here, so you'll just have to wing it), be careful don't hit the lens too hard, cheap it ain't. Then you say '@#$k the 2s delay', switch to continuous shooting and fire 70 more shots, all the while shifting the lens up and down to keep the light constant throughout all shots. Then, you go back home and you discover you actually got it right in the shot #17, and that part where you threw the tripod to the ground was completely unnecessary.
So here it is, in a nutshell :-D
..oh.. I almost forgot.. I finally cracked under pressure and I joined Facebook feel free to follow me to see the rest of the Norway portfolio (I promise, no shots of red huts taken from the bridge in Reine :-D )
Yeah I know the feeling of hating my gear even though it's always my own fault. Very nice image. The processing is clean, the tones work well for me and the composition is pretty nice! I'd be curious to see if you did a composition looking slightly more to the right. The visual interest is weighted to the right side of the image a bit (for my brain anyway).
You know.... they make this thing called a Remote Release... If you use it then you won't have to be stuck with that 2 second delay. I have never understood why Canon shooters are so stuck on that 2 second delay when there are Remote Releases that we have been using on cameras for about as long as cameras have been around. Especially when shooting water, you want to be able to shoot repeatedly and precisely when a wave comes in and splashes.
Anyway, a really nice shot here. I like the lines in this. And it must be cool to have a sunrise that moves sideways!
Jim
PS. Buy a remote release, you can get inexpensive ones for less then $10 if money is the issue.
Very cool shot. I'm sort of lost on the sense of perspective here. Are you shooting from a hillside? are you in the water? How far apart are those lines? I'd consider cropping some from the top, and maybe even the bottom. All in all, beautiful shot!
Gorgeous. I would consider taming the water down on the left and bringing the sky brightness up. Its always weird when the waves are brighter than the brightest spot of the sky
That's really nice! I'm liking the emphasis on the water/sand ripples in the foreground and the dramatic sky. Kind of a dark feeling but very dynamic image.
Which way did you stitch again? Do you mean vertical as the size seems odd for a horizontal stitch. Anyway, I'm just curious how it was stitching the 3 images with the movement in the waves and clouds. I've had some disasters trying to stitch images of wildflower fields where things slightly move between frames, haha.
Love the shot and feel your pain. I agree the two second delay sucks on the beach, but then wonder why I still end up using it when my remote cable is always in my bag
@rainshadow 3 horizontal shots. The entire foreground and a sliver of the mountain is in the 1st shot, the mountain with some sky in the 2nd and the sky with the mountain at the bottom in the 3rd.
I find that photo rage is worst when trying to fiddle with equipment after days and days of very little sleep. Thankfully, I haven't thrown anything since the days of CD players. ;-) (Which is rather odd, since I've gotten more and more into astro-landscape photography, and have spent plenty of nights running on 0-2 hrs of sleep haha. I guess I just know now to catch up on sleep after 1-3 days, otherwise I get cranky...)
Looks like you might have been hanging out with the Man, the Myth, the Legend, Ryan Dyar! Killer work. Inspirational for sure. You will see me here soon. Come visit...
Killer work. Inspirational for sure. You will see me here soon.