A few weeks ago on Coronado Island...

Dolphins!

 

A few of the cool shots I got on the ship this past week.















And pulling back in next to our twin

 

Cool pics Lawrence. I like the one with the rope and eye glass thing, the one before the chair shot.

Here's a couple I took yesterday:


Stone wall near my house:



Close up of stone:



Tree:



Waterfall:






I have a 101 question.

How do you blur things like running water when there's lots of light, most of the shots I took of this I tried at different shutter speeds, but the more I slowed it down, the more I could tell it was going to be overexposed. Is there a trick, or is it better to just return when the light is better.

 

Here on the southwest coast of Florida we get our share of great sunsets, so I kinda keep one eye on the late afternoon sky in case it looks like we might be in for a good one. What I've learned is that it is impossible to predict what will happen an hour from the time I decide to make the 8-block journey over to Vanderbilt Beach.

Two days ago it looked like we were in for some color, so I loaded up and went over. In 30 minutes it seemed like all the cool clouds I was counting on decided to congregate into a huge black thing that totally blacked out the sunset.

Trying to make the most of it, I got a cool shot of the clouds out of the effort.

 

No explanation necessary on this one.

 

Right place, right moment.

 

Try using a Neutral Density (ND) filter. You can use long exposures in broad daylight with shallow DoF without overexposing using those (a good one is gonna cost you though). Also, you can use a circular polarizing filter as a weak ND filter (around 2 stops effectiveness, ie. 1/500 ss <-> 1/250 ss <-> 1/125 ss, or f/2.8 <-> f/4.0 <-> f/5.6, or ISO 400 <-> ISO 200 <-> ISO 100 - each increment is 1 stop).

 

Ogaleicrum - I like that shot, looks like a jellyfish!

Some more shots!






^ too bad it's a bit blurry

 

Thanks

 

Another shot with the new lens.