Breaking Waves

[richard crowe]

Another hdr shot. This looked a good shot to the naked eye, but of course the camera struggled with it, even at f22. I took a few anyway and was glad I did because the hdr conversion did a good job at showing what the eye saw. Again , perhaps not to everyones liking and edging towards artistic rather than realistic, but what the heck, I like it!! It looks pretty real to me. I suppose I should take off my rose tinted glasses one of these day! lol

[Guest]

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Hi Richard - Now I do like this one and have to say so as I commented unfavourably about your previous set. I think this has real atmosphere and would welcome this hanging on my walls any day. !! Not in the least overdone in my view.

[peter]

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Hi Richard

You have posted some great photos over the last few days and this is my favorite so far.

[Autumn]

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You have one fantastic image there Richard. Beautiful processing and the splashing waves silhouetted against the sky just make it for me.

[Ian]

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Looks like you're on to a winner with this one

Did you HDR the shot from one image (varying virtual exposure from a single RAW file) or from several shots?

Ian

[yoshi]

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Hi Richard,
I was wondering if this was taken by the same wide zoom Sigma 10-20mm - as in that case the splash must have made you and the camera wet?! Maybe you cropped it or used another lens?
You said f22 and the splash is almost well frozen by a high speed shutter. The scenery must have been acutually very bright and/or you chose high ISO?

Your picture triggers my imagination/guesstimation in technical fields as well.
I like the wave in the foreground.

yoshi

[Ian]

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Hi Richard,
I was wondering if this was taken by the same wide zoom Sigma 10-20mm - as in that case the splash must have made you and the camera wet?! Maybe you cropped it or used another lens?
You said f22 and the splash is almost well frozen by a high speed shutter. The scenery must have been acutually very bright and/or you chose high ISO?

Your picture triggers my imagination/guesstimation in technical fields as well.
I like the wave in the foreground.

yoshi

f/22 would also mean the picture is softer than it could have been at, say, f8, which is the sweet spot for resolution of this camera.

Ian

[mib2]

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I think it's a cracking photo.

Cheers for your efforts

Dave R

[richard crowe]

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Thanks for the comments guys. Appreciate it. Thanks Ian re the F22 bit - I was not aware of that. I always thought the the smaller the aperature the more back to front dof you would get. I normally shoot in av mode with F8 as standard, but because I was into the sun the first attempt was blown out. I wish I had been able to get the splash a bit sharper as it is a bit of a niggle for me. But hey, practice makes perfect and if at first you dont succeed...! The exif for this shot were F22 iso200 1/125 sec @ 17mm

[Patrick]

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[QUOTE=richard crowe;26682]Thanks for the comments guys. Appreciate it. Thanks Ian re the F22 bit - I was not aware of that. I always thought the the smaller the aperature the more back to front dof you would get. /QUOTE]

You do get more sharp back to front, thats not what Ian meant, the image can get softer for other reasons with extremely small apertures, but its very slight and is an all over softening, depth of field is still greater.

Patrick

[Ian]

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[quote=Patrick;26690]

Thanks for the comments guys. Appreciate it. Thanks Ian re the F22 bit - I was not aware of that. I always thought the the smaller the aperature the more back to front dof you would get. /QUOTE]

You do get more sharp back to front, thats not what Ian meant, the image can get softer for other reasons with extremely small apertures, but its very slight and is an all over softening, depth of field is still greater.

Patrick

f/8 focussed at 7.5 feet will give you an in focus field from 4 feet to infinity when using an 18mm focal length on a Canon APS-C DSLR, so there is no need at all to use f/22 and suffer diffraction softness. This effect is probably tolerable in a scene like the one here, but you would definitely notice it if you were photographing anything with fine detail.

Ian