Cool idea, Mark. I'll have to steal that sometime. On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice set - I really like the first image you selected though all are quite > good. Nothing like the power of water... > > I don't have any photographic techniques for shooting surf, but if I was > going to try I'd go for a faster shutter speed, tripod mount the camera and > take a mess of photos of the crashing waves. Then selectively blend the > shots to blur (via multiple averaged exposures) the places that looked > better motion blurred and keep sharp the stuff that looks best frozen. I > never tried this technique with surf but I have with little creeks and > waterfalls and it works. > > Mark > > On 1/20/2016 4:15 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> Does that make it queso? >> >> Sunday afternoon, my friend Nicole and I spent some time playing with >> cameras down at Garrapata state park (just south of point lobos). With the >> weather we've been having the surf was active to the point of being scenic. >> I got a few decent shots, this may be the best: >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/23868256674/in/album-72157663572666792/ >> >> When I got home and started trying to process the photos I realized that >> while I might have everything exposed reasonably, processing them so that >> you can actually see the details is quite a challenge. >> >> Has anyone developed any techniques or tricks for photographing and >> processing active surf, particularly sea foam with a cloudy sky in the >> background? >> >> I suspect that I may have been a bit too conservative in terms of ISO, >> that a bit more shutter speed might have better preserved some of the >> details. >> >> For those interested in the rest of the set: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157663572666792/ >> >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > 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.
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