On 8/13/05, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day Frank, > > An absolutely stunning shot.
Thanks, David. > You've caught the action at the perfect > moment, composition, focus DOF are all spot on. I would have normally liked to pan this type of shot, to get motion blur, and to separate the jumper from the background. However, with ISO 200 film on that bright sunny day, I couldn't get my shutter speed slow enough. So, I opted for as wide an aperture as possible to get that separation, and didn't move the camera. Just composed and waited for the leapers to run and jump through the frame and snapped. I don't remember what the aperture was, but I know the shutter speed was 1/1000th (the fastest on that camera). Apeture may have been around f5.6. > I also really like the > expressions of the people watching in the background. > > What really blows me away is that you have beaches. When I think > Canada, I see prairies, mountains, bears, brass monkeys...that sort of > thing. <VBG> We have lots of beaches, in lots of places. The Great Lakes are the largest fresh-water bodies of water in the world, and there are many wonderful beaches. Wasaga Beach on Lake Huron is, IIRC, the longest fresh-water sand beach in the world. Of course, the East and West Coasts, being on the ocean, have many huge and beautiful beaches (although on the East Coast at least - having never been to the Left Coast, I don't know about there - the water's pretty cold). You probably don't know this, but Canada has more fresh water than any country in the world. We have thousands and thousands of lakes and lots of rivers, so there are lots of beaches, even in Saskatchewan <g>. Of course, some of them you do have to bring your ice awl to drill a hole in the crust <vbg>. > > My views are probably coloured somewhat from only having been there in > winter :-) > > Seriously though, that's a cracking pic. Thanks again. <g> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
