Thursday, February 09, 2006

Feb Project - Quiet Moment



I made this photo last year at Stow Lake. One second exposure with a 300mm lens on Kodak Tri-X film.

6 Comments:

Blogger Warren T. said...

Nice one, Martin! Your subjects cooperated by keeping still for your 1 sec. exposure.

By the way, are you going to the Chinese New Year Parade this year? You can reprise your Gum Lung (golden dragon) picture :).

Gail and I will be there to see the parade this year because we know someone who will be in the parade. There should be some good photo ops in Chinatown that day.

--Warren

Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 10:22:00 AM PST  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Martin,

Was this picture conceived and pre-planned before you went out there to shoot it? Or did you bring your 300mm w/tripod that day to see what was out there to shoot? Did you know that couple in the picture?

I just want to get into your head a little to understand your picture making process.

It's interesting that some of these people would probably really appreciate some of these pictures that we're taking of them. On a previous picture that I posted here of a couple of friends in Sausalito, I got one of their email addreses, and I sent that picture to them.

--Warren

Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 11:18:00 AM PST  
Blogger Warren T. said...

One more thing... this setting/composition would make a beautiful wedding picture. I wonder if any of our local wedding photogs did this yet.

This image here would make a great, casual, "engagement" shot.

I'm filing this one for "future reference" :)

--Warren

Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 11:37:00 AM PST  
Blogger martin said...

I originally intended to do a photo of the water fall with a time exposure and to let people in the photo blur. What happened was that the effect I was after needed an exposure of one second or one-half second exposure. Most people walking across the frame didn't show up on the frame, there were moving too fast. Fortunately this couple stood together for a few seconds. If you were to stage this for a picture, you would need an assistant and a radio or cell phone as the distance from the camera is about 200 feet.

There's also a bit of dodging, burning and sharpening which isn't too noticable.

Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 11:53:00 AM PST  
Blogger Eric said...

Hey Warren, this reminds me of the photo at your home with you and Gail by a waterfall.

Very nice, Martin.

Ej

Friday, February 10, 2006 at 7:40:00 AM PST  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Eric, I had the same thought. The one of us was taken at a different waterfall in the park.

--WT

Friday, February 10, 2006 at 7:48:00 AM PST  

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