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Three boats in the water

aerialphotoaerialphoto Registered Users Posts: 299 Major grins
edited March 31, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
Aerial - Nikon D300

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    dave6253dave6253 Registered Users Posts: 229 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2012
    Very Cool.
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    W.W. WebsterW.W. Webster Registered Users Posts: 3,204 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2012
    I'm not sure about the crop. eek7.gif

    Perhaps the boats could be travelling diagonally up the frame rather than straight up and down?
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    aerialphotoaerialphoto Registered Users Posts: 299 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2012
    dave6253 wrote: »
    Very Cool.

    Thanks :)
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    aerialphotoaerialphoto Registered Users Posts: 299 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2012
    W.W. Webster wrote: »
    I'm not sure about the crop. eek7.gif

    Perhaps the boats could be travelling diagonally up the frame rather than straight up and down?

    It isn't cropped, so.. maybe next time :)

    There's this oblique though

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    W.W. WebsterW.W. Webster Registered Users Posts: 3,204 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2012
    aerialphoto wrote: »
    There's this oblique though

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    I had been thinking in terms of the boats moving from bottom left to top right, but this is a pleasing view! Any chance of a smidgeon more space at the top, or is this the full frame? eek7.gif
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    dave6253dave6253 Registered Users Posts: 229 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2012
    The first one looks better to my eye. The wakes seem more critical to the image than having any more space in front of the boats.
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    RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,931 moderator
    edited March 22, 2012
    The first shot seems crisper and I like its color more. I'm not entirely happy with the framing of #1 either. If you don't mind Photoshop shenanigans, I think it would be fairly easy to expand the canvas (anchored at the bottom) and fill in still water, then crop as desired. Just a thought.
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    ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 23,856 moderator
    edited March 22, 2012
    If one considers the subject matter as both the boats and the wake shapes, which works because the wake size is significant and is such a stark contrast against the water, that first image works quite well. My only artistic suggestion is to deepen the black point and shift the tint a bit more to the right (to make the water even more brown. If you look at the histogram, make the green spike equidistant between the red and blue spikes.)

    The formation and the image composition is very nice and reminds me of animal formations and jet formations.

    I suspect that this is one of those images which translates better to a large sized print than to a computer monitor.
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    EiaEia Registered Users Posts: 3,627 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2012
    That is a very intriguing picture. My eyes follow the wake up to the boats nicely. Interesting - so I have to ask what was this all about? A military exercise it seems -- but where/ how did you get privvy to this scene?
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    toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2012
    No how to's from me

    they're both good shots, I prefer #1

    Nice work
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    aerialphotoaerialphoto Registered Users Posts: 299 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2012
    Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I have no details on the boats. We were flying, in a turn, and happened to see them pop out from under us so I grabbed the camera and shot a few pictures (which explains the perspective change with the second image).
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    redleashredleash Registered Users Posts: 3,840 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2012
    I like the first one best also. It's a neat shot.
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    Jack'll doJack'll do Registered Users Posts: 2,977 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2012
    I like Richard's suggestion of adding a little more water to the top. I would then crop to eliminate most of the water on the left and right of the two outside wakes. This is a stunning catch by the way. thumb.gifthumb
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    aerialphotoaerialphoto Registered Users Posts: 299 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2012
    Thanks :)
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    NedZNedZ Registered Users Posts: 93 Big grins
    edited March 30, 2012
    I like the first one better. Boats themselves make diagonal. Great shot.
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    aerialphotoaerialphoto Registered Users Posts: 299 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2012
    Thanks :)
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    DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2012
    I like both of them thumb.gifthumb
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