Sea Legs WC#581
by John Clulow
I never posted my favorite picture from the last voyage of the SS Badger in September 2009, and I reviewed the criteria for WC#581 to make sure it would squeek in: On the Water - Submitted by Jim Erhardt. Photos taken from a body of water in a boat, canoe, etc.
I fully realize there are a lot of implicit assumptions, perhaps, but I think this photo is at least nominally permissible under the above definition. So I'm going for it.
Walking around with the boat rolling back and forth, I came into this empty area and saw this little guy holding on to a post for some stability. And I liked the surrounding geometry and other things, so I took it. Any and all advice would be most appreciated as always.
Pentax K100D Super, 18-55 kit lens at 40mm, ISO 800, 1/250s.
Comments
3 commentsYou have a picture of Opie Taylor here . . .
Carolyn Derstein, I share your observation regarding the differences in diffusive light in the window openings. No special processing was applied here; all were treated in an egalitarian manner. And yet the differences in luminance are clearly evident in the image, and those differences are evident not only in the right-most window, but also in the more subtle difference between the center two.
When light enters through windows, it is affected by the properties of the medium in them; the glass, or absence of it, and its transparency and shading. Whenever light reaches our lens, it has, at a minimum, transited the earth's atmosphere, and refraction and diffusion of various kinds are inherent in that as well, depending upon time of day and many other factors.
It is entirely possible (I cannot recall for sure) that there was no medium in the opening for the window on the right and that the other three had shaded plastic or glass in them. If you look closely, you will see that that window opening, on the right, is slightly larger than the other three. That could account for why the reflected light is brighter on the right side of the post and on the deck over on the right; i.e., the shaded windows in place in the left-most port hole openings were shaded glass or plastic, perhaps, effectiveness of that shading varying from pane to pane.
The boat was going in for extensive rennovation immediately after its return to Luddington, MI, that day, despite the storm warnings, and I would assume that replacement of this window would be one of the many repairs they made.