The Matrix

rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
edited September 22, 2010 in Street and Documentary
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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited September 16, 2010
    I like the moment of capture with the majority of water at the hand, thus your title. I'm curious how many shots it took to capture that image? If the child and water were predictible, I might have tried to have a more clear background, ie: the woman (mother?) out of the shot if possible.

    But still a pretty nice timing on the capture IMO.
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2010
    cool catch, literally :D
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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited September 21, 2010
    M38A1 wrote: »
    I like the moment of capture with the majority of water at the hand, thus your title. I'm curious how many shots it took to capture that image? If the child and water were predictible, I might have tried to have a more clear background, ie: the woman (mother?) out of the shot if possible.

    But still a pretty nice timing on the capture IMO.

    Thanks for looking and commenting.

    I saw the kid playing and began wandering into the area trying to figure out what shot I wanted. The kid suddenly stuck his hand in the fountain behind him (in the pic) while facing away from me. Suddenly he turned and I realized he was going to do the same at this one, so I took two steps to get the angle. This was the second of three shots (not a burst, maybe a second apart). The first was when he began to raise his hand. This second one was timed for the capture as seen (sports shooting familiarized me with the shutter lag time) and the last was after when he pushed down on the water. This was shot with at 17mm from the hip.

    The first: 1016366623_DdC38-S.jpg and third: 1016366736_zNaWX-S.jpg
  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited September 21, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    cool catch, literally :D

    Thanks!
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited September 21, 2010
    #3 is also very good. Well captured. thumb.gif
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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2010
    Richard wrote: »
    #3 is also very good. Well captured. thumb.gif

    Thanks! I liked the compositional elements in #3, but wanted to only post the first as I thought I captured "the decisive moment" that I was after.
  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2010
    rainbow wrote: »
    Thanks! I liked the compositional elements in #3, but wanted to only post the first as I thought I captured "the decisive moment" that I was after.

    I think the decisive moment is better captured in #3. It's the juxtaposition between the child and adult both playing in the fountain as well as the generally much better use of the setting in the composition.
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