Sunday, October 24, 2010

Sunset and sailboats

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The subject is a cliché. The treatment is a cliché. Why take postcard snaps? It's the kind of scene that has memories for the person who took the photo.

Nevertheless, if you’re going to take such a picture, arrange it well. Time it well.

Have the sun beam his reflection down the water a little off-center. Stagger the boats to give a sense of depth. Focus on boats with different mass and rigging.

It looks symmetrical but it pleasing well isn’t.

Canon 5DII, 70-200mm (200), f4.5,1/1,250, Colonia del Sacramento 101023

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6 Comments:

At October 24, 2010 at 11:54 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

One's life is like a ship, we are sailing to our harbor and going on a colorful destiny. It makes our life filled with dramatical as this picture showed, Spectacular!

 
At October 25, 2010 at 2:43 PM , Blogger Barry Natusch said...

Similes and metaphors. Sunset spills plenty of them. Some people break into words. Like, "The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." Pamela Hansford Johnson. A ship being a simile for life? Building on the simile of "Life's a journey"? I like your "colorful destiny."

 
At October 25, 2010 at 11:05 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Smiling to our ship, it just like to smile to our journey, people have dream as they always dream what they will be. that's the color of life journey, sailing well, life will go through a wonder land.

 
At October 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sailing to our life destiny, no matter it's sunny or in a raining day, using the same view to face our life, happy mind keeps our mood cheerful, it likes to see in this blog, marvelous!

 
At October 29, 2010 at 12:10 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Melody is the color of sign. Color your life in color as sailing a ship to a paradise, with happiness it shows exclusive in your blog.

 
At October 30, 2010 at 1:06 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you like sunrise or sunset? Using color to illustrate each of patterns, it's brighten even the ship in sunset. Life is a such beautiful thing as the sunset shows in this picture.

 

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