sailing in a storm

[charleslim]

shot a series of photos of national SEA games sailors training in a storm off the east coast.
Made some mistakes during the storm - should have increase the shutter speed (it was at 1/250) and switched the flash to highspeed.
Anyway I wasn't really thinking of that during then
conditions in the storm were quite difficult and the boat was rocking around like mad, i was hanging on to my dear life.
can't wait for the next storm, now that I learnt about this.

please give me yer 2 cents of what u think? - anyway the shots were taken with a sigma 20 1.8 - hehe don't have long expensive lens- so the only way for me is to move closer(in this case swim).

[ortega]

nice action shots, but the cropping seems a little too tight for me
I like #4

[charleslim]

want to see the full frame?

- dang the flash!
here

[JediForce4ever]

what cam were you using??

[charleslim]

1ds mark2 - I worked with a 20d (love that camera cheap and good) before - it when AWOL after 3 days in the sea. after some serious though I got myself the 1ds mark2 hence now no more $$ to buy long lens. so i just got myself a waterproof bag.

[n0d3]

Nice, just curious how did you get that angle with the 2nd shot? Waterproof camera?

[charleslim]

I am swimming there. with a waterproof bag - it protects the cam - but manual focus is impossible to do with it - along with other manual controls.

one thing I encountered shooting on water surface - is water droplets hitting my lens (bag) and causing my auto focus to go crazy -
So I tend to fix my focus at infinity - which is not so bad with a wide lens . Away this bag sucks cause actually I want to go manual focus and change other controls. - I am hunting for alternative solutions

shameless self promotion time! http://www.seastories.sg/feedme/cile...eshow/470.html -- sorry guys -- can give me advice again on my lau ya site? thx man

[ortega]

Originally Posted by charleslim want to see the full frame? - dang the flash! here

full frame is alot more exciting than the cropped version
maybe crop abit off the top, flash is okay with me

[charleslim]

there we go - recroped with abit of top off - and i tried to fix the flash on the deck of the boat on the bottom half with photoshop -

[Hobbesyeo]

Wow! Great pics! You can really see the grim determination and dedication in their faces.
I'm amazed that you even managed to hold on and take the pictures.
And now you want to be able to manually control your camera?

Just wondering how you managed to hang on to the boat and your camera, and still take the pics. Was it a just point and shoot affair, or did you aim?

I like your website. The main page is very cool. (altho I find music playing websites a little passe. :P). The inside pages seem to lack the main page's design elements, which is quite unfortunate. It would be great if the entire site had a consistent design. Excellent pics there. I'm just amazed by your shots.



just my 0.02.

[charleslim]

yea the music is begaining to irritate me - plus it's abit of a copyright problem(can kena sued) - thinking of doing some interviews with the people in the photos and add a another human element to it.
Time to get my little mp3 recorder and micophone down to the beach this weekend.

design wise - thx for the 2 cents! I will try some other stuff on page 2, maybe the feedme logo has to come in again or the 3 panel layout has
to follow through. agggrrhhhh webdesign

picture taking - yep it was matter of hanging on there , point + shot(NS hip firing postion..hehe)! If i put my face to the viewfinder in situations like this, I would have capsized the boat. But basically this is my first time taking pictures in a storm, and I think my learning curve would increase, if I could change the settings (flash settings- off course this is all preplanned) there rather than go back to shore and tweak it.
hehe yesterday i tried this idea of running around with wide lens up close in a rugby practice session at old NIE pitch. One of the big bloody ang mor players nearly tackled me. anyway 100% of all the shots turned out crap and deleted of it. They practice, I practice also.

i hope practice makes perfecto

[Hobbesyeo]

IMHO, I think if you kept the layout of your mainpage and apply that to your subpages, it would be very cool. Of course, programming the flash bit is going to be a real-pain-in-the-ass.

That said, if your website's objective is to show off your photos, do remember to keep it fast loading and simple. I've come across some really fancy sites but the long loading time (due to flash & other m-media) really puts me off and I just close it. Another 0.02 for you.

Good luck with your other ventures in the sea. Hope to see more soon. Dun lose your camera to the water!

[sehsuan]

very good shots. heck, i don't view sailing photos, but rarely do people get to see as a "3rd person" on board a 2-man boat. really really good action here - though a 1d mk ii would do better. flash's output is fine, you have something similar to backscatter, that you can't help anyway.

[Will03]

wow.. i really like the pics.......

[rickygck]

Love the music in your webby, not forgetting the pictures too. Cheers

[charleslim]

thx the tips on the web and encouragment for the photos, I was abit unsure if the photos worked or not, after awhile see until steam. I going down to the beach again today shoot more windsurfing.
This time with highsych flash set to go!

[tOGGY]

Originally Posted by charleslim want to see the full frame? - dang the flash! here

Uncropped and untouched is better. One of those special pictures where a slight flash problem express how demanding shooting this pic actually is.

Perfection will screw up the great action. Imperfection adds to the excitement.

Just my own preference and eyes. I like your pic - a lot. It has adrenalin.

[melvynyeo]

Wow... excellent stuff. You don't see these everyday. From your pict, you seems like a hardcore photographer... will do anything to get the shot you want

for your attitude

[charleslim]

no storm today. but the sun was up and the wind was blowing, but not honking enough for super stuff, swam around in the sea and shot what ever I could. - hopefully tommrow will be better.
Last night I was at a trading firm at where one of the windsurfer works snap shots of him working the graveyard shift(american markets open).Very interesting. He was basically looking at computer screens (bloomberg etc etc) and yelling (that's how they talk) down the phone to some fellow somewhere else in the world.