Photography afloat.

[doug748]

Now and then I go to the Motor Boat section to check out what is new below stairs.

The thread "A Long weekend on the boat" features some very nice photos from one of the cabin cruiser boys. Check it out.

It certainly shows up the shortcomings of my waterproof snapshot camera not to mention my own skill levels.

I intend to dig out my Fuji bridge style camera. It seems to have a 46mm dia thread on the lens. Where is the best / most cost effective place to buy filters? I seem to recall a daylight/UV/Polaroid combination works wonders on the colour effects.

 

[johnalison]

I think there are more differences between photographers than between cameras, so any camera that suits your needs and pocket will do.

When I bought a polarising filter for my old EOS film camera I had to buy one that was "circular polarising" rather than the normal type, so that it wouldn't confuse the autofocus system. I don't know if this still holds true for modern cameras.

 

[henryf]

Hi there.

That's my thread !

Actually a couple of the photos have been taken on an iphone. The one looking through the window at Stable Pizza restaurant in Weymouth is a good example.

Not a particularly technical photo probably but an interesting image.

Boating provides such a rich environment for taking pictures. Some of it is the kit, I've just spent quite a lot of money on a reasonably telephoto lens (70-300mm) which produces some nice effects, but by the same token it can be used for snap type images.

Half the battle is being bothered to take your camera in the first place.

I'll often go off in the tender and lose myself for a couple of hours exploring quiet corners of a harbour. Either that or go walk about. It gives you a reason to go for a walk.

Henry

 

[deuc02]

Half the battle is being bothered to take your camera in the first place.

If a knackered old door's all you've got to offer I wouldn't bother next time

 

[doug748]

"Half the battle is being bothered to take your camera in the first place.

I'll often go off in the tender and lose myself for a couple of hours exploring quiet corners of a harbour. Either that or go walk about. It gives you a reason to go for a walk.

Henry"





Grand work.

I am sure you are right, I love looking a other's photographs but am too idle to rouse myself.

With the Canon do you use the UV and polarizing filters together? Do you have to fiddle with the polarizing job, I seem to remember that they are adjustable - as johnalison has hinted above.

 

[henryf]

"Half the battle is being bothered to take your camera in the first place.

I'll often go off in the tender and lose myself for a couple of hours exploring quiet corners of a harbour. Either that or go walk about. It gives you a reason to go for a walk.

Henry"





Grand work.

I am sure you are right, I love looking a other's photographs but am too idle to rouse myself.

With the Canon do you use the UV and polarizing filters together? Do you have to fiddle with the polarizing job, I seem to remember that they are adjustable - as johnalison has hinted above.

You turn the filter round until it gives the desired affect. Yes, I tend to use them together although the polarizing filter lets less light in so don't use it all the time. I've only just bought it so I don't think it's necessarily a must have.

Henry

 

[henryf]

If a knackered old door's all you've got to offer I wouldn't bother next time

Ah but you're seeing it out of context. It was part of a larger body of work entitled Salcombe as you've never seen it before. Knackered old doors.

Henry

 

[deuc02]

Unfortunately knackered old doors don't do anything for me. Strangely i find the hosepipe to the right of centre very interesting. Shame you ruined a potentially great study of a hosepipe by getting the tree on the left out of focus. More practise required. Happy Hols

 

[snooks]

If you want to see pretty pictures of boats, feel free to have a nosey around my website: http://grahamsnook.com

 

[Twister_Ken]

Can't see any reason to use a UV and a Pol at the same time. The more glass/air interfaces you have, the more image degradation there'll be.

Main use for a UV nowadays is as a cheap piece of glass to keep muck off the expensive piece of glass that's the lens.

 

[macd]

When I bought a polarising filter for my old EOS film camera I had to buy one that was "circular polarising" rather than the normal type, so that it wouldn't confuse the autofocus system. I don't know if this still holds true for modern cameras.

It probably is still true with digital SLRs or anything using mirrors or beam-splitters in the autofocus system. Besides, there'd be little point in using a simple screw-on polariser, since it needs to be able to rotate on the lens: the effect of the filter, which can be intense (it principally darkens and deepens a blue sky) varies with the angle to sunlight (you can check this out with a pair of polarising sunglasses: look at a blue sky or the surface of the sea, then rotate your head to horizontal: the polarising effect will disappear). All polarisers, unlike UV filters, also absorb a lot of light, reducing the available range of exposure (so not much used, for instance, for long-lens action photography).

 

[johnalison]

I used to use screw-on polarisers on several cameras; they came in two sections, one of which could be rotated over the other.

A normal polariser can produce very dramatic effects in scenes with bright sun and lots of colour, but the results are not very natural. I used the circular type quite a lot both on water and on land. Over water, the reduction in reflections tended to restore the picture to something like how my eyes saw it. In landscape pictures it can also be helpful in increasing contrast and giving more saturated colours without looking unnatural.