sailboat sunset
Oct, 2015Views
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this photo was taken on a family trip to the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy. I clearly remember this shot, as one of those moments where i was still pretty beginner, but all of a sudden the lighting, clouds and the boats lined up so perfectly that the shot just kind of "fell into place."Time
the photo was taken around 3pm in the afternoon while I was playing around with my relatively new camera and trying various shots. The sky had been quite overcast for most of my time at this secluded beach, when as the sun lowered toward the west, a hole appeared in the clouds right behind the two boats, and cast this amazing lighting over the entire scene.Lighting
my advice as far as lighting goes, is to just be patient and wait for the right angle of the sun for your scene to really shine. had i taken this photo just a few minutes too late or early there wouldn't have been the dramatic contrast and silhouettes.Equipment
the only equipment i used for this shot was a Nikon D810 and a 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens.Inspiration
i really had no particular intention of shooting this scene, i just happened to look up and see this amazingly lit and contrasted scene and then snapped the shot before the magic disappeared.Editing
contrary to what many of you may think, this image was not converted to black and white, this was the actual lighting of the scene which made it a black and white! i did do some very minimal adjustments in Adobe Lightroom like bumping up the contrast a tiny bit, but that was all.In my camera bag
my bag normally consists of a nikon d810 body, a nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 lens, a nikon 50mm f/1.4 lens,a 105mm f/2.8 macro lens and a remote shutter release. i also will sometimes take a tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3 for certain wildlife. I also love my sony alpha a7r with the zeiss 55mm f1.8 lens, definitely one of the sharpest lenses i have ever used! if I'm traveling,i normally take the manfrotto BeFree carbon tripod which packs super small. for a more stable solution i use the manfrotto 190 carbon and magnesium tripod.Feedback
my only advice is be patient, wait for the right lighting! lighting can completely make or break a photo and just being patient will reward you with some amazing results! another piece of advice is to always have your camera ready and charged, no matter what the weather, like this shot, a few moments earlier this would have been just a drab ocean scene, but that minute where the sun peeped out completely changed everything, and wouldn't have happened had there been no clouds or all clouds.
