Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Hoppy. >Dick I don't know anything about sailing. Reading your post >quadrupled my sailing vocabulary. >However, I think the second shot is a fine boat portrait. The other >boat in the distance just adds to the composition for me, >without being distracting > >Cheers >Hoppy > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On >Behalf Of >Richard S. Taylor >Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:43 >To: lug@leica-users.org >Subject: [Leica] Boat Portraits > >Sometimes the hardest thing to do is take a straightforward picture >of an object that depicts the thing accurately yet is also >interesting photographically. Here are three attempts at boat >portraits. I wanted not only to depict the boat accurately in >interesting light in these pictures but also catch a sense of action. >In this case that meant capturing the bow wave as it splashed away >from the bow of the boat with the boat moving up a wave. > >My first is a double-ended, or canoe-stern, gaff-rigged sloop. This >is undoubtedly a wood hull boat that has been lovingly maintained for >a long time. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011108_web.jpg.html > > >Same boat, alternate position. I like the profile of the boat better >in this shot but feel the second boat takes attention away from the >main subject. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011105_web.jpg.html > > >The second is a somewhat more conventional sloop of about the same >era, also gaff-rigged. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011096_web.jpg.html > > >And the third is a fiberglass boat of more modern (probably 1970's) >design, Marconi-rigged, with one reef tucked in and being well-sailed >in the strong breeze. The skipper is looking at us (we were racing >against him on Vineyard Sound for the Moffett Cup) probably trying to >figure out why we're sailing through his lee so handily. We were a >couple of boat-lengths ahead of him just a couple of minutes after >this was taken. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011121_web.jpg.html > > >Ricoh GRD. Comments encouraged as always. I'll post a few more >pictures from the race later in the week. >-- >Regards, > >Dick > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick