A ship, some water & a slow lens

alex gard · Feb 12, 2014

Is there like a dedicated thread we can just dump out pics in or is this it?

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Rick A · Feb 12, 2014

Nice shots. As a subscriber, you can upload to the gallery, where they would be available for other subscribers to view.

Jim Taylor · Feb 12, 2014

I love the first two photographs. (Really, really really like the second one!)

Care to share exposure and development details?

alex gard · Feb 12, 2014

Thanks. Tried uploading to gallery but said files were too big? (10mb each?)

Film is acros 100, rodinol 1:100 semi-stand one hour.

All with red filter & ND8. Exposures all about 1/2 sec - 1 second

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munz6869 · Feb 12, 2014

Smashing stuff!!

Marc!

effae · Feb 12, 2014

Cool shots! There's something eerie about the second one, love it!

cjbecker · Feb 12, 2014

I really like the 3rd and 5th. The movement does it for me.

Thomas Bertilsson · Feb 12, 2014

850 pixels in the long dimension is the maximum size you can upload to the gallery. More people would see them there.
If you try to upload something a bit larger than 850 pixels the gallery software will shrink and compress, which usually looks horrible.
I advise making the image smaller than 850, like 840 pixels, and save at the highest possible quality to show your photographs.

alex gard said:
Thanks. Tried uploading to gallery but said files were too big? (10mb each?)

Film is acros 100, rodinol 1:100 semi-stand one hour.

All with red filter & ND8. Exposures all about 1/2 sec - 1 second

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bsdunek · Feb 12, 2014

Really like the look of the ship being sharp and the water 'soft', like streams & waterfalls with slow shutter speed. Nothing I would have thought of.

alex gard · Feb 12, 2014

thanks everyone.
for reference, here's a set on my flickr with my original 'ships & long exposures' ideas in it, I guess it's an ongoing thing on most ships I work on. Orginally started with a DSLR so won't post those here but the first few in that set are definitely the winners.

it works much better with rough weather of course, more dramatic. but the last trip was really calm both on the way down and back so have yet to get any good ones on film.

check out the set !

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pbromaghin · Feb 12, 2014

cjbecker said:
I really like the 3rd and 5th. The movement does it for me.

+1

Dr Croubie · Feb 12, 2014

Thomas Bertilsson said:
850 pixels in the long dimension is the maximum size you can upload to the gallery. More people would see them there.

Actually, less people would see them there. Spare a thought for the rest of the internet who can't view the gallery.
(and if you can only post 850pix wide there, you may as well shoot a phone-camera. If it's been shot at LF quality then it's worth viewing at LF quality).

I'm very impressed that you could get 1-second exposures and keep the ship that sharp. Did you tie-down your tripod so that it rocked along with the ship and didn't vibrate?

pbromaghin · Feb 12, 2014

Dr Croubie said:
I'm very impressed that you could get 1-second exposures and keep the ship that sharp. Did you tie-down your tripod so that it rocked along with the ship and didn't vibrate?

Yes, how did you do this?

Newt_on_Swings · Feb 12, 2014

I really liked this set of photos! Great work there is such a feeling of energy and motion in those images.

I would also guess that you tied down your tripod? Or is it the effect that a larger ship doesn't seem to rock as much?

Dr Croubie · Feb 13, 2014

Newt_on_Swings said:
Or is it the effect that a larger ship doesn't seem to rock as much?

I'm going on the fact that the horizons are motion-blurry, it's not just the waves. So the camera must have been very well locked to the ship which both rocked together.

I was contemplating if it might have been a 35mm with an IS/VR/VC lens, but it can't because then the horizon would have been sharp but the ship blurry (that, and I know he shoots LF).

alex gard · Feb 13, 2014

all those digital shots are on a 5D mk2 with a 24mm f1.4 LII lens. & 3 stop GND filter

The camera was on a really cheap shitty tripod. I just set it up and held the tripod as firmly as I could with my hands, pushing 'down' into the deck. I was really surprised how sharp they came out especially the ones where I am on the monkey island (top deck) with 50 knots of wind slamming me. I didn't expect them to work. The one of the water rushing over that gate towards the camera I nearly lost the camera. It came at me harder than expected and nearly knocked me and the camera over. It was a bit blurry because in the I lost my footing in the last part of the exposure (it was really rough) but I still liked how it came out. it was too dangerous to stay there much longer

Thomas Bertilsson · Feb 13, 2014

Beautiful pictures, but this site is not for digital photography, my friend. Film only, please.

alex gard · Feb 13, 2014

The pics i posted were on film. I posted external link to set rather than digi pics.

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A ship, some water & a slow lens

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