Clinging

Clinging


Waiting for the tides, clinging to dreams and hopes.


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Technical info:


Technical info:


Quite a tricky photo. The boat was slowly moving, so I couldn´t use excessively long exposures. The problem was that there was not much ambient light, so I would have to use exposures >10seconds to properly expose the image. As this was not an option (because the boat would be totally blurry), I had to increase the ISO to 400. With my pentax K10d this would be a total no-no, due to extreme noise, but it worked very nicely with the Sony a55 and the Adobe Camera RAW 6.3 amazing noise reduction algorithm.

Still, the boat was a bit blurry, which I tried to correct with selective unsharp masking in the boat area.

Location: Alvor - Algarve - Portugal


Camera and lens: Sony a55 + Sigma 10-20mm
ISO: 400
Aperture: f8
Exposure: 5 seconds
Tripod
3 stop ND grad filter