Cover for Book, titled 'Shiriri's Pacific Voyage'
I added this image for the contest 'Covers' not being quite sure whether book cover, CD cover, or like a music cover, in the style of another artist. ...
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I added this image for the contest 'Covers' not being quite sure whether book cover, CD cover, or like a music cover, in the style of another artist. For several years we sailed ( and lived aboard) our 50' traditional wooden gaff rigged schooner,' Shiriri'. We sailed across the Pacific and back, had plenty of adventures along the way. I did the work on rebuilding her myself, and i would guess that my interest in construction, in composition, when it comes to making photographic images can be related to that and other building-designing projects I have undertaken in my life. Also, that experience out on the big ocean certainly informs what i take photographs of and what i am trying to show, the almost forgotten voice of the natural work, in my visual and written work.
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April 23, 2020
So good that I want to hoist up the sails. Let's include the Beach Boys on our iPhones singing Sloop Joh B.
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Howe Sound BC, CanandaTime
Full daylightLighting
Backlighting helps the sails show well.Equipment
My old Pentax Spotmatic film camera. Shot from our dinghy while we sailed circles around it for a photo shoot. But, this was re-shot much later from the colour print with my Nikon DSLR and processed in Lightroom as a digital image. If you look closely you can see the old photo look and that works well for its purpose as the photo cover for a book about this little ship's voyages across the Pacific. I planned at processing time to include title and author into the final image and thought about placement of the words as I cropped.Inspiration
We needed photos of our yacht and these can be hard to come by if one is sailing on it. We were writing cruising articles and always needed photo illustrations. I would guess that the popularity of this image lies less in the technical and more in the boat itself - many dream of sailing off on a boat like this. Photography does a good job of presenting visual information, the facts. And this was a dream boat. :)Editing
As above, rephotographed from a colour print, processed as a B&W digitalIn my camera bag
I'm not a complicated equipment man, usually just my camera and a standard zoom lens and in this case a plastic bag to keep the salt water off when not actually in use.Feedback
Take several images both vertical and horizontal, and from different angles, think about the light quality and direction and what your image's eventual function will be, what you wish to communicate. Enjoy what you are doing, think about how the image you want will fit into the frame, how the pieces work together. Your frame is how you visualise it in its final state not simply how it fits within the viewfinder at the moment of shooting.
