Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: shadowblade on April 16, 2012, 07:51:27 pm
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A fishing boat returns to harbour at sunset.
Taken in Stone Town, Zanzibar.
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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
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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!
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Thanks for that.
I have also discovered from another post that you appear to be based in Australia - is that correct?
Regards
Tony Jay
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Great looking shot, the silhouette works well.
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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.
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Yes - nice city Melbourne and interesting weather for an outdoor photographer.
Regards
Tony Jay
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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... Judging from your website...
Which is...?
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Stunning shot, it all comes together perfectly for me.
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Can't get much better! Well done!
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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.
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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...
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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..?
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Incredible shot and composition... Can you share some more details on the camera, lens and settings?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The EXIF data is all wrong anyway, since I had to take the two frames separately and combine them in Photoshop.
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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)?
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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...
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Absolutely stunning!