About this Picture: This is another shot of my son (Julian, left) and his Aunt Carolyn (middle) and cousin Jenna (right). I had waded out to about my waist ... camera in hand. Waist deep doesn't describe the risk to my camera very well. This is the ocean, so that means the water had ebbed to well below my bathing suit bottoms at some points, and was crashing nipple height at other times -- all with me holding my camera as high above me head, and clutched as tightly in my hand as possible.
The camera angle I was going for was as close to the water surface as possible, with the kids in the background and an approaching wave coming at me. But after some experimenting, I found that wasn't very easy to do. Any decent picture of a big wave approaching me meant I couldn't see any of the kids from that camera angle (they would be behind the mountain of approaching water). And I probably risked my camera more than I should have, by holding it that close to on-rushing water. The wave that's approaching me in this shot, although hard to see in the picture, is about 3' tall. It hasn't started to curl yet, but it was big enough to almost knock me over and call an end to the shoot.
This is the last one I snapped, not really the effect I was looking for, but something I wanted to keep as a reminder of the failed experiment. =)
1 comment:
great shot. You need an aqua pac for you camera- then you would have no worries. You can even use it as an underwater camera up to 15 feet below!
I don't have one either, but it is on my wish list. Then again, so is a new camera . . . .:0
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