Southampton Water (slide film)

Nice one. It is not often that I can tell what time of day and conditions existed from the thumbnail but I could here. The full size is even better. I might as well be standing there.

Thank you. I wasn't sure this picture would work given the bright reflections off the water. I thought the water might end up overexposed as this is easy to do with slide film. I also took a couple of pictures with a 100mm lens which might have been better but like an idiot I forgot the lens still had a yellow filter on it!

The underexposure leads to the dramatization of the scene and I like that mood, leading to the true truism that some underexposure with slide film usually is best. Exposing for the highlights worked here. - David Lyga

@David Lyga Yes that is what I did. Expose for the highlights and let the rest be where it may. In fact, it does look as I remember it. To the eye, the reflections from the water are so dazzling that the rest appears (relatively) quite dark. I love the silvery glint from the sea, like a moving mirror. The wind had picked up by late afternoon and those dinghies are going like the clappers having been moving quite serenely in light winds earlier in the day.

Yes, indeed, there is something to be said about countering the maxim 'expose for the shadows'. This truism is not always true and sometimes aesthetics takes precedence over 'information accumulation'. - David Lyga