PHOTOGRAPHER'S DIARY: No cry of, "Eureka!," as a modern day Archimedes slides the green boat from its Platonic universe and zooms me into the present, but the spirit of Leger still rules over the boogie man's reflection in the water below.
PHOTOGRAPHER'S DIARY: ...and I like the way he stirs my paint.
PHOTOGRAPHER'S DIARY: As boogie-woogies go, Bass Harbor's is clearly fog-bound. It's probably at its most active when a seagull finds a bit of food that needs cracking and "throws" it repeatedly against rock.
The shutter speed should have been doubled to freeze the seagull, but the pose is so good, the reflection off the port side wing so strong, that I much prefer it to a stilled gull in a less revealing pose. Besides, I was delighted to catch the gull right where I needed him.
I think I need to do a trip just for gulls. Many times gulls glided frustratingly through images when I wasn't ready for them. The alternative is get set and be prepared to wait 30 minutes by which time the light may have changed. Yes, there's always Photoshop.
As always, vertical images come out too small for computer screens. However, if you can zoom in on the pilings, I think even the reduced resolution jpg image of this post reveals clearly a menagerie of sea life temporarily marooned until the tide comes in. Had I known this texture would be revealed so sharply, I would have tried for closer images.
At ISO 400, f10, and 1/125 sec. this probably should have been also shot at ISO 800, 1/250th sec. Yeah, right! Shoot it twice! ...and I can bet the community on the piling would not have been as sharp.
2 comments:
Ted - love this area - thanks for the pictorial journey! The images are as excellent as I have come to expect when I come to visit! It's always a continuing learning experience on how to shoot something - but what a grand experience! I wish I had enjoyed learning as when I was a young fella....
Cheers my friend!
Jerry in Tampa
Jerry, thanks for your terrific comment. I hope you realize the journal entries are really for teaching myself - for thinking about my experiences with the camera. If they are at all useful to others, all the better, but that's not my aim. As to the "young fella," I wish I was one - age 62 and counting. If you ever head north, be sure to let me know and perhaps we'll find time to meet and even shoot some pictures together.
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