As I mentioned in my previous post, Michelle and I went photographin' last weekend. I had not taken pictures, really, since May, so I was quite rusty. Nevertheless, we had fun, and I did get a few decent shots. She got more than I did, because she's an amazing photographer, and maybe there will be a link to some of her photos soon. HINT, HINT.
So, without further ado, here are a few pictures of the ocean. The complete set is here. Here are a few I liked.
This is the beach just down the hill from where we were staying. It was gorgeous, cold, and not crowded. There were just enough people to make pictures of the beach and the water just a little bit more interesting.
The ocean was quite dramatic, which is not good for swimming but good for pictures. I also have a black and white version of this photo. I keep flipping between preferring one over the other, but today I like the color one better, so that's the one I'm posting.
This one I'm posting for Michelle, who likes the light shining through the top of the wave.
This one I like because (a) it's black and white and it somehow works that way and (b) I like the couple with the fishing rods. There's also a color version.
This I really like, in part because you can see the bottom of the wave through the top, and because I feel quite brilliant for taking a photo of a wave from the back (top?), rather than the front. I was walking above it on the pier and realized I had never actually seen a wave from this angle before.
On Sunday afternoon we went back to our beach to play with longer shutter speeds and water. It was an experiment, made more difficult by the setting sun directly in front of us (too much light for long shutter speeds) and by the biting, relentless cold wind that made our hands completely numb and not very nimble. Most of the shots I took that afternoon are pure shit. But that's experimentation, I guess. So, having made a long story even longer, here are the two I like the best from those experiments.
That kid was out there for a long time and didn't stop moving at all except for about a minute while he kneeled. That's when I was able to get this. This was a 1 second exposure at f/38. Unfortunately my lens was fogging up from the humidity and the cold, so there's a weird streak on the right. Michelle would be able to fix it, but I didn't know how, so it is what it is. I think it might have been better if the frame was a bit to the left, so that the edge of the surf was almost at the edge of the frame, but seriously, by this point I could barely move my hands so let's just be grateful that I even got a shot of the water at all.
This is an odd image because it's almost like like sand, surf and sky all together. But there is no sky in this shot. This was a 5 second exposure at f/40 of the surf mostly retreating from the beach. Weird, right?
And finally, what's a trip to the coast without a sunset shot?
