Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sometimes the hardest thing to do is take a straightforward picture of an object that depicts the thing accurately yet is also interesting photographically. Here are three attempts at boat portraits. I wanted not only to depict the boat accurately in interesting light in these pictures but also catch a sense of action. In this case that meant capturing the bow wave as it splashed away from the bow of the boat with the boat moving up a wave. My first is a double-ended, or canoe-stern, gaff-rigged sloop. This is undoubtedly a wood hull boat that has been lovingly maintained for a long time. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011108_web.jpg.html Same boat, alternate position. I like the profile of the boat better in this shot but feel the second boat takes attention away from the main subject. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011105_web.jpg.html The second is a somewhat more conventional sloop of about the same era, also gaff-rigged. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011096_web.jpg.html And the third is a fiberglass boat of more modern (probably 1970's) design, Marconi-rigged, with one reef tucked in and being well-sailed in the strong breeze. The skipper is looking at us (we were racing against him on Vineyard Sound for the Moffett Cup) probably trying to figure out why we're sailing through his lee so handily. We were a couple of boat-lengths ahead of him just a couple of minutes after this was taken. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/SAILING/R0011121_web.jpg.html Ricoh GRD. Comments encouraged as always. I'll post a few more pictures from the race later in the week. -- Regards, Dick