Thanks, Rick! Cheers, Christine
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I really like #s 4 and 7 especially. Nice series! > > Rick > > On Nov 1, 2014, at 1:15 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> Hi Everyone: >> >> We had exceptional winds today, so I thought I’d head to the lake to catch >> some waves. The white caps were prominent to be sure, and there was a bit >> of splashing waves a tad north of where we were. Higher waves, which >> flooded bits of Lake Shore drive, could be found south of us—closer to >> downtown. We were up north by Wilson ave. >> >> Anywhooo, The spot we stopped at is the put-in spot for jet skis and >> windsurfers and such, and we got lucky since a handful of windsurfers were >> taking advantage of the high winds—and boy were the winds high. >> >> It was really hard to take pictures. I couldn’t keep the camera or myself >> steady. The wind was coming from the northeast, and if I tried to shoot >> into the wind, sand carried along by the wind stung my face so bad—for the >> first time, I was glad to be wearing glasses! By the end of the shoot, I >> had sand everywhere, hair, mouth, ears, and even in my camera bag. I had to >> do a big shake-out when I got home. >> >> Darrel was with me, and he tried to act as wind-break for me, but it didn’t >> really help much. It was such an exhilarating shoot—lots of fun to try to >> deal with the elements while trying to shoot. I’d like to do more bad >> weather shooting—though I don’t think I’d like to chase tornados and such. >> >> I really would have loved a longer lens. Most of the photos below are deep >> crops. I did the best I could with the DA* 50-135. >> >> So I have a question: Darrel thinks were were about 100 yards (a football >> field) from the surfers. Given this distance, which would have worked >> better, a 200mm or 300 mm prime to catch the surfer action? >> >> >> http://www.caguila.com/windyday/index.html >> >> Cheers, Christine >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
