Glenn had a good point about helping people with their photographs so I thought Id do that with this shot & explain how I took it. Firstly I wanted to get a different view of the piers & chose this angle from the beach off the east pier and secondly I wanted to create the nice movement in the waves & this was done by using certain settings. Re the composition, I was at pains to make sure I could see the break between the piers as this is generally more pleasing than having them overlap. Then I set my dslr camera up on my tripod and made sure it was level, so that the horizon didnt slope. The added advantage to this is, if you do have to straighten the horizon later, you will have to crop your shot which involves losing bits off the side. I was able to make it level by use of a small see through cube which cost a few pounds & helps level both vertically & horizontally. The level slides onto the hotshot where your external flash will go. To create movement in the waves involves making sure that it takes the camera a third of a second to make the exposure. So, how do you do this? Turn the dial to shutter priority. This is abbreviated with an S (for Nikon, Minolta, Konica Minolta, Sony, Olympus, Sigma) or Tv (for time value with Canon, Pentax, Leica). When you set the time (0.3 sec) the camera will automatically set your aperture - basically at what depth of field is contained within the image, or even more basically - how much of the image is in focus. Aperture set at f16 will mostly make sure your picture has front to back focus throughout the image and a setting at say, f6 will ensure only a small amount of the image is in focus. After this it was a little bit of trial and error, taking a number of shots before I was happy with the look of the waves. I focussed approximately a third into the frame on the nearest part of the east pier extension using Live View on my camera. If you have Live View its generally the best way of being able to focus accurately. If you dont have Live View or its not very good, then youll have to do it the old fashioned way via the viewfinder. One point of warning, when taking pictures over this length of time, you need to make sure the light has dropped and its not too bright as you will blow the highlights or even worse have a completely white screen due to totally over exposing the shot. Lastly, this type of shot is very difficult to do handheld as trying to hold a camera perfectly still for one third of a second is surprisingly difficult to do, hence why a tripod is a must. Shooting Details; Camera Canon 5DII, Lens 70-200mm at 163mm, using shutter priority (Tv) at 0.3 secs, aperture (set by the camera) at f18, ISO 100 (film speed). Also no filters used. Edited in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Hope this was helpful. Any questions, feel free to ask :-) Damien https://flickr/photos/damo-photo/10021079763/
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:45:38 +0000
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