Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Fishing for Pitch Black (almost had it. Darn! Lol)

      Some friends and I went fishing recently and I fought some cool images of complete blackness behind a subject:



In theses, we obviously see the subject as the flash illuminates the foreground, but the lighted area quickly gives way to complete blackness as the Gulf of Mexico unfolds in the background.


In this slightly out-of-focus picture, Ryan holds a baby shark (that we made of him relentlessly for), while blackness again is the dominating feature of the background.


      In order to capture a crisp foreground, it was important to use the flash and sacrifice what would have been an otherwise beautiful stars cape behind my subjects,  Alas, a lengthy shutter speed would have meant blurred subjects, and who wants that?

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