Yachting Photography

[graham]

I am thinking of setting up a company to rival Beken of Cowes ,What do you think........

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[powerskipper]

I think you need to practise. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ChrisE]

Are you looking for a trainee?

 

[graham]

Re: Are you looking for a trainee?

Thats one way of avoiding a sloping horizon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I have offered this one to aPost card manufacturer,they havent replied yet... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Why is that yacht heeled over so much. It doesn't seem to have a main up.
Of course we can't see properly, I wonder if the photographer has another shot? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[ChrisE]

Yachting I find difficult, I\'m more of a portraits person

 

[Cornishman]

Nah! Beken's best photos are in a sepia print with the boat's name handwritten in white ink along the bottom of the picture.

 

[graham]

Bit breezy yesterday,heres a better one.

 

[Allan]

I'm so glad you posted this second shot! When I saw the first one I thought all the water in the bay had gone down the Penarth end! That would mean my boat would be on the bottom! I nearly jumped into my car to go and check!
Allan

 

[graham]

Re: Yachting I find difficult, I\'m more of a portraits person

You have completely outclassed me there Chris. Pure photographic Genius. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Ah. I see now. It's that reefing thingy isn't it?

 

[Achillesheel]

Great pic, and typical pose for an Achilles!

Why not put it on the recently set-up Achilles picture site, www.flickr.com/groups/achilles24/pool/

 

[snooks]

Dunno about Beken, but you've got me worried! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

You might want to get a bit closer though....

 

[Lakesailor]

Cor. Don't you choose crap weather?



I'm so glad I don't do commercial work anymore.

 

[snooks]

I wish I could "choose" the weather! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

But in between the rain and the clouds it was a bit of an alright day /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

That's better.
Shame somone's written all over it.

I often found that a break in the weather gave better results than a prolonged "fine weather" spell.

 

[snooks]

Clearer light

While I could wax lyrical about how much clearer the light is after the rain, there's a very simple reason....As the rain falls it washes all the fine floating crud (dust, sand, pollution etc) out of the air/atmosphere. So the air, you or I am shooting in, is crystal clear /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Re: Clearer light

I didn't want to say that as I didn't want to sound like a clever bugger. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

It's very true though. I photographed a dam renovation project from a helicopter two years running. The first year it was teeming down and the helicopter arrived as a break in the clouds appeared. 40 minutes later it was pelting down again. I had to use filters to make the sky look lively, but the shots were great.
The next year during a prolonged hot spell we had the chopper for 2 days and never got a (pictorially) decent shot.

Hot weather + reservoir = water vapour.

 

[ggt9]

Re: Clearer light

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I had to use filters to make the sky look lively

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Did you check round the headland? Looks like someone has set off a bloody great buoyant orange smoke /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Re: Clearer light

In commercial photography the client is the King.

"Client Loves It" is the mantra you follow.

Whatever the client wants...........