Very nice timing, Christine. I believe I prefer the composition of the one including the second jogger. Not because of the jogger, but because you don't need that much left side. Overall wave action is great and grabbing two crashing waves with the jogger in between makes it special.
Jack --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO Lake Michigan Waves > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 11:50 PM > Hi Everyone: > > I believe this is my 1st wave shoot. I probably shot > about 90 pics, but this was the best of the bunch. The > others weren't very interesting mainly because I didn't time > the shots right or the wave didn't turn out as dramatic as I > thought it might or the composition was uninteresting. > Getting all of the aforementioned just right at the same > time was hard. > > Birds were everywhere as well--so I cleaned up the sky > quite a bit--lots of blurry black spots polluting that drab > looking sky :-). > > I found shooting waves quite a challenge. I tried to use > all my senses to anticipate where the big splashes might be > but it often didn't work out. I tried to rely on > hearing, but it seemed the louder and incoming wave was the > less interesting was the splash when it hit the shore > :-). If anyone has any tips, I'd be grateful. I > probably should try this again with an ND filter, no? > Also, I'd be interested in knowing which crop you > prefer--I've cropped the jogger out of the 2nd pic. > > Anyway, comments/critique welcome--I could use some help in > shooting this subject. > > http://faculty.ccc.edu/caguila/waves/index.html > > Cheers, Christine > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
