Floatography

Irish_Tom · 3 Aug 2006 at 16:58

Hi guys,

Dad and I took the dingy out on the river today and as the classics are coming down this way for Falmouth Week I thought it would be a great oppotunity to get some more practice with the camera

as we were moving around a lot I had to use auto focus for all of these. All taken with D50 and kit lens 18-55mm

Here are a few of my faves:

Bowsprits

A bit abstract but I like the composition, shame it's not perfectly focused.

Rigging

Look at all that string!!!

Boat 21

These guys were loving the attention! got spray on the lens shortly after this shot and so all of the rest of the shots of this boat had to be ditched.

Irish_Tom · 3 Aug 2006 at 16:59

Ferry

Life on the river Fowey.

Water Taxi

And again.

Sunset

Saying good bye to the sun a little further up river.

Cheers guys, let me know what you think. Any comments are better than no comments so if you can see a shot that needs improving let me know what I've done wrong

Panzer

themask70 · 3 Aug 2006 at 17:03

Great shots mate, i especialy think that number teo is really good as the angle you got for the composition is quite amazing. Good shots

King_Boru · 3 Aug 2006 at 17:10

be carefull shooting the whites of the sails and hull, they can look overexsposed sometimes, take a couple of test shots with on aperture priority and -0.3ev. to what it looks like. it might give a them a bit more shape as well. (in bright lighting situations) thiose shots look fine though.

edit: a circulare polarizer can help as well. but i dont think the kit lens will work with it becasue it rotates while focusing :S?

Irish_Tom · 4 Aug 2006 at 18:47

Cheers guys

I've got a CP filter but didn't attach it for those shots. As you say it interferes with the focus on the kit lens for the D50. It's Fowey regatta in a couple of weeks and I intend to take a lot more photos of boats to try out my new Sigma 70-300 curtesy of Bigred

Panzer

Scam · 5 Aug 2006 at 14:03

Panzerbjorn said:
I've got a CP filter but didn't attach it for those shots. As you say it interferes with the focus on the kit lens for the D50.

It does

I thought the idea of a CP over a Linear Polariser is that they're made for cameras with AF and rotate with it or som thing :confused:

Nice shots btw.

Irish_Tom · 5 Aug 2006 at 16:00

It doesn't stop it focusing, but it is a pain to get a shot focused and then adjust the filter only to knock the lens out of focus again.

Thanks for the feedback

Panzer

bigredshark · 6 Aug 2006 at 02:31

Panzerbjorn said:
Cheers guys

I've got a CP filter but didn't attach it for those shots. As you say it interferes with the focus on the kit lens for the D50. It's Fowey regatta in a couple of weeks and I intend to take a lot more photos of boats to try out my new Sigma 70-300 curtesy of Bigred

Panzer

70-300 should be good for that, the AF is reasonably fast on it as well. good luck!