Santa Catarina - Barra da Lagoa
Mar, 2014Views
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This is Barra da Lagoa, a fisher village in Florianópolis, capital of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Barra da Lagoa names the small channel that connects the Conceição lagoon to the sea and the sorrounding neighborhood, formed by fisherman houses and hostels. I was walking by the village and took a small road following the channel when I found this pier by the shore of the channel.Time
At the sunset.Lighting
I was really hunting for a stuning sunset but on that day the sky was gray and boring. When I turned to the north I saw this spot showing a glance of blue sky and with more defined clouds instead of a plain gray blanket. I mounted a combination of ND filters to get a shutter speed that would give me a silky water but still fast enough to blurry out that anchored boat. Natural light is my passion.Equipment
Canon 6D with 24-105mm F4L IS USM shot at 28mm, shutter speed 5s, ISO 100. No flash. I had a tripod on me but I choose to lay down on the boat's ramp to give it a nicer pespective.Inspiration
I use to go to this place when I am on vacation. I notice that everybody lives around the channel from what the channel can provide them. They have food from the fish they fish, they have leisure from swimming in the channel, the channel is also their mean of transportation... The water and the nature around is well integrated in these people lives that I thought this place would represent well this connection. Even though you don't see people in the picture you can see marks of civilization everywhere.Editing
Apart from a few standard corrections, I just tweaked the color temperature to show more yellow/ocher. The intention was to make it look warmer and give it sort of an aged photo look that represents a place stuck somewhere in the past.In my camera bag
Canon 6D, 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens 50mm f/1.8 75-300mm 3xND filters, polarizer filter, tripod Camera remote, 3x16Gb SD cards, Speedlite 550EX chargers, 2x backup batteries A pen and a notebookFeedback
On long exposition shots there is a "magical number" for the shutter speed. Longer than that you will make your picture look more like Star Wars' Naboo. Shorter than that will make your picture just boring. I took 8 shots with different shutter speeds to get this one right. So my advice is: be patient, try as many times you want but try to not waste shots (be assertive) know why click again and take notes of your parameters.
