It’s surprisingly difficult to take decent quality pictures of waves as they splash. There are technical factors such as the length of exposure and so on, but there are some practical factors that are equally problematic. One of these is that you don’t know how big the splash is going to be until it has happened. This means that a lot of the time, you end up with either a tiny splash in the middle of your frame, or a huge one that extends beyond it.
I know they say that a poor workman blames his tools, but I have a further problem caused by a limitation of my camera: there is a small time-lag between me pressing the button and the picture being taken. This means that if I wait until the perfect moment to take the picture, I will miss it because the camera takes time to complete recording the image. And just to complete the Catch-22 situation, the lag is larger the higher quality the image is.
The above splash is one I managed to get mewstly in the frame, mewstly. It’s marred by the fact that I had the camera on digital zoom to get it, so the quality is compromised. Click on it to make it bigger.
All of this means that I really should be considering splashing out on a better camera. *sigh*
Cheers, Tom.
10/05/08 @ 11:39