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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: shadowblade on April 16, 2012, 07:51:27 pm

Title: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on April 16, 2012, 07:51:27 pm
A fishing boat returns to harbour at sunset.

Taken in Stone Town, Zanzibar.

Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Tony Jay on April 16, 2012, 08:03:01 pm
OK you are getting our attention now!

How about putting us out of our misery and giving us a potted, photographically biased, biography of yourself.
It is clear that you get around a bit.

Regards

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 05, 2012, 07:45:23 pm
Biography? There's not much to say, really... I travel, take photos, and sell them to claim a tax rebate on travel expenses and camera gear!
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Tony Jay on May 05, 2012, 07:54:34 pm
Thanks for that.

I have also discovered from another post that you appear to be based in Australia - is that correct?

Regards

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: John Cothron on May 05, 2012, 08:00:25 pm
Great looking shot, the silhouette works well.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 05, 2012, 08:16:45 pm
Thanks for that.

I have also discovered from another post that you appear to be based in Australia - is that correct?

Regards

Tony Jay

Yes - Melbourne.

And, no, I am not Peter Lik.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Tony Jay on May 05, 2012, 10:31:59 pm
Yes - nice city Melbourne and interesting weather for an outdoor photographer.

Regards

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: sdwilsonsct on May 06, 2012, 02:39:56 pm
travel, take photos, and sell them to claim a tax rebate on travel expenses and camera gear!

One of the nice things when I worked in Australia was the liberal tax deductions on work-related expenses, liberally defined.

Really nice water in this shot.

Scott
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: dreed on May 07, 2012, 12:02:56 am
One of the nice things when I worked in Australia was the liberal tax deductions on work-related expenses, liberally defined.

Really nice water in this shot.

Scott

Yes, the water really is quite smooth but textured at the same time.

Orange sunsets like that aren't uncommon in Melbourne, and there's the bay to add in beach/water (which is more often than not choppy), but getting the boat in frame like that is quite marvelous.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 07, 2012, 12:45:13 am
Yes, the water really is quite smooth but textured at the same time.

Orange sunsets like that aren't uncommon in Melbourne, and there's the bay to add in beach/water (which is more often than not choppy), but getting the boat in frame like that is quite marvelous.

That's not Melbourne - it's Zanzibar.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: dreed on May 07, 2012, 01:11:27 am
That's not Melbourne - it's Zanzibar.

Yes, I know... what I was trying to say (and obviously failed in doing so!) is that whilst the colour of the sunset is not uncommon in Melbourne, the other aspects are and that trying to take the same photograph there would be ... more challenging. Then again, maybe it was in Zanzibar too?
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: 32BT on May 08, 2012, 07:39:10 am
The near graphically flat style, combined with dominantly saturated colors while maintaining 3 dimensional reality for supporting elements, and in this case a strong visual metaphor, absolutely works. Judging from your website, this isn't a consistent style for you yet, but I would seriously consider cultivating this direction of your photography.

If I had a high-end gallery and these prints were truly limited, I would certainly try hard to obtain one or more prints for my art collection.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Rob C on May 08, 2012, 12:56:31 pm
A fishing boat returns to harbour at sunset.

Taken in Stone Town, Zanzibar.





You caught the Sun like that on digital? However and whichever way, it made my day, as Clint might have muttered; lovely image just perfectly made for 'traditional' All Rights Reserved stock. Would have sold over and over.

Wow!

Rob C
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on May 08, 2012, 01:06:04 pm
... Judging from your website...

Which is...?
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: donkittle on May 09, 2012, 09:30:03 am
Stunning shot, it all comes together perfectly for me.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: langier on May 09, 2012, 01:16:27 pm
Can't get much better! Well done!
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 09, 2012, 10:02:58 pm


You caught the Sun like that on digital? However and whichever way, it made my day, as Clint might have muttered; lovely image just perfectly made for 'traditional' All Rights Reserved stock. Would have sold over and over.

Wow!

Rob C

This was a double exposure - I exposed once for the sky and sun, then waited about ten seconds for the boat to sail into the frame, then exposed for the sea and boat.

I generally don't sell images as stock - only as large, gallery-style prints, usually on aluminium (like Bay Photo's Metalprints). But, then again, photography isn't my main source of income.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 09, 2012, 10:04:22 pm
The near graphically flat style, combined with dominantly saturated colors while maintaining 3 dimensional reality for supporting elements, and in this case a strong visual metaphor, absolutely works. Judging from your website, this isn't a consistent style for you yet, but I would seriously consider cultivating this direction of your photography.

I'm not quite sure what that means - I can only capture what's in front of me...
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: dreed on May 10, 2012, 05:14:55 pm
I generally don't sell images as stock - only as large, gallery-style prints, usually on aluminium (like Bay Photo's Metalprints). But, then again, photography isn't my main source of income.

Online or at sunday markets or..?
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: jeverton on May 12, 2012, 08:29:43 am
Incredible shot and composition... Can you share some more details on the camera, lens and settings?
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 12, 2012, 09:57:24 pm
Incredible shot and composition... Can you share some more details on the camera, lens and settings?

Canon 5D Mark II, 500L, ISO 100. Forgot what the shutter speeds were, but one was very fast and the other a bit slower.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on May 12, 2012, 10:17:01 pm
Canon 5D Mark II, 500L, ISO 100. Forgot what the shutter speeds were, but one was very fast and the other a bit slower.

The Exif data says the focal length is 100.

Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on May 12, 2012, 10:51:59 pm
The Exif data says the focal length is 100.

Impossible. At that focal length, the sun size would be much, much smaller. Sun size is approximately 1/100 of focal length (1/107 to be precise), hence 500mm lens would generate a close to 5mm sun on a full frame.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 12, 2012, 11:36:21 pm
The EXIF data is all wrong anyway, since I had to take the two frames separately and combine them in Photoshop.
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on May 13, 2012, 01:02:51 pm
The EXIF data is all wrong anyway, since I had to take the two frames separately and combine them in Photoshop.

You mean one frame was shot at 100mm and the sun at 500mm (and the EXIF picked up only the former)?

Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: shadowblade on May 13, 2012, 03:12:37 pm
No, they were taken around 10 seconds apart and mounted on a tripod. The shutter speed in the EXIF also shows 1/640 - implausibly slow for shooting directly into the sun, Given that I was processing other photos at the time, I probably copied both images over a third image, just out of laziness...
Title: Re: Catch of the Day - Stone Town Harbour, Zanzibar
Post by: MBrew on May 30, 2012, 02:10:37 am
Absolutely stunning!