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For this photograph, I used a mid-range ISO and F-stop to allow for a very high shutterspeed for a stop-motion effect of a wave crashing over a rock.
For this photograph, I used
ISO 400
F 8.0
1/2000th shutterspeed
I used f8 to get a shorter depth of field, to highlight the point of the rock the wave is crashing over, without totally bluring the background. I kept the ISO down to 400 to prevent digital noise from entering the exposure, and for a wave, 1/2000th is a fast enough shutter speed to stop the motion, and when shooting anything signifigantly faster, it become difficult to time the shutter with the corresponding action of the wave.
I chose this photo because it illustrates something that you can see only with a camera. If you watched this wave, in the period of only one second, you could see two thousand of these photos. It is not humanly possible to halt action, and stop and take the time to examine a fraction of a second, and look at every little droplet of water, every little bubble of the frothing foam. I like how the water seems to be composed of thousands of little droplets and other shapes, but very few defined and clear lines. People have historically gone to great lenghths to try and stop rising tides or advancing seas. In this case, all it takes is a camera.
5 comments:
The way you used the camera to freeze the water here is very interesting. It's cool how you caught the frothy part of the water breaking on the rock(s?).
This is an absolutely amazing shot. You captured one single moment in time beautifully. The drops seem crystallized yet they still maintain a strong sense of power and movement. Great tone variations and technique.
Mark,
How does your image use line and shape to communicate something? You focus almost entirely on the use of digital camera techniques in your approach to the image, but you have missed the second part of the assignment, which was to consider the use of line/shape to communicate some quality/meaning/content. In your case, I wonder if you could have used greatly varying shapes to communicate a sense of a much larger scale than the actual one we are looking at, which would emphasize what I think you are interested in, which is the power of this water. or perhaps there are just too many details that tell us exactly what this is, and leave very little to our imagination? The use of line emphasizes the path of the water from top left to bottom right of the image, and creates a gentle sense of movement as the lines are not very dramatically positioned in relation to the frame of the image. This gives us a safe perspective from which to view this rushing powerful water. In any case, it is not for me to tell you what your picture is trying to communicate, but instead to point to the fact that pictures use technical prowess with formal sophistication to communicate. So what are you trying to communicate?
I would add one detail Mark, which is your composition is quite balanced (the dark area on the left balanced by the intersecting shapes of the waves on the right).
And thanks for posting the larger image for study
There is a definite sense of harmony in this photograph. The way the waves all flow together with the same texture, and yet there is still variety in the lines of the waves still make recognizable forms.
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