Montauk is a magical place on many levels ...... from starkly different north and south shores. I very much recall the water and planning the shot, waiting for the trawler to be silhouetted by the rising sun (Ian, if you remember, you preached that on the Smith Island trip when the crabber lifted the triangle over his head). As usual, what I saw did not match what came out of the camera. I do remember blending two images, one exposed specifically for the foreground rocks and the other for the region above the rocks and fighting to make sure the reflection in the foreground matched as closely as I could. Canon 1DX, Zeiss 21 Distagon, ISO 100, Exp 1.3 seconds, f20
Hello Bob - I'm drawn into this image. Great.
Great foreground, central reflection brings me into the horizon. Lots of detail, mood and a real sense of place I get.
Reading your comment about Preacher Ian ( 😄) I'm not sure I agree. It does form part of a singular point of focus, but it lacks a bit of definition. For me slightly offset would be good to see. Tricky one. A slight crop off the right to perfectly centre the sun and boat the only other thing. That's being picky though.
Thanks Bob - is Montauk where they shot The Affair?
Andy
Interesting...... I have a few images with the ship slightly offset. Might've to try to dig them out as part of he dumpster dive:-)
Yes, the Affair was shot in Montauk. If you ever get a chance to go there, in any season, opportunity abounds. From pine barrens to coves to open ocean to a quaint town to a lighthouse to a rocky shore to a sandy shore and all of the birds imaginable (and things unimaginable), Montauk has much to offer.
Las October we moved to the Catskills, so exploration now abounds:-)
thx:-)
A beautiful image. The boat has some motion blur, I think, so it is not sharply defined. But I love the rocks, reflections and mood.
Thx and yes..... looking back, I wish I had gone f16.....
Not the f stop. It's the shutter speed. A faster shutter speed would have frozen the boat's motion.
Hmmmmm. Now you have me thinking. I always thought the, given how far away the boat was and the shutter speed of 1.3 seconds, that boat movement was not the issue. Maybe it was! I always thought that it had something to do with glass optics (not that Zeiss Distagon is inferior as I used to shoot that and Canon L lenses exclusively - now Sony and Voigtlander). I have had this effect happen in other shots when silhouetting objects that are further away - even still objects. I thought maybe being stopped down so low had something to do with it. Have you ever struggled with this problem? Thx.
I am going to post another pic with the same issue so you can see what I mean.
There can be diffraction when you have stopped down to your smallest f stop. But, in this case, I suspect that 1.3 seconds may have been too long with a moving boat.
I am going to have to be more aware of that in the future ..... learning such to take the next step up is exactly why I joined. Thank you so much:-)