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Disposed

© Christian Harberts

Disposed

Uploaded: October 13, 2005

Description

Full manual settings: 1/50, F5, cropped, Gaussian Unsharp Mask, Small optical slave flash triggered in the foreground to create highlights. Nightfall on the beach at La Tranche sur Mer, France. Summer 2005.

Comments

john dunne October 13, 2005

Fab. composition. well done #326150

Wende Trew October 13, 2005

Awesome job! I love it! #1949206

Kay E. Mahoney level-classic October 13, 2005

Fantastic job Christian. Love the way you got the can way up front and the people way out on the beach. #1949471

Nemil B. Chabebe October 13, 2005

Great job!!!! #1949824

Navin Talwar October 13, 2005

A good shot very well composed. #1950031

October 14, 2005

I like the composition, the red and blue! #1950252

Pat Gamwell October 14, 2005

Love the crop..creates a whole different POV. #1950265

Christian Harberts October 14, 2005

Thanks John - sometimes staying up past my bedtime makes me creative!

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Christian Harberts October 14, 2005

Thanks for the kind remark, Wende.

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Christian Harberts October 14, 2005

Thanks Kay! Sometimes you have to make a few adjustments to get the most out of a composition - I walked the can around for a half an hour, shooting different backgrounds... Then I properly disposed of it, bien sûr!

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Christian Harberts October 15, 2005

Thank you Nemil!

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Christian Harberts October 16, 2005

Thank you Navin!

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Christian Harberts October 16, 2005

Thank you Michelle. I'm adding a comment to the description, because I forgot to mention that I used all manual settings here. Basically, most camera sensors have a hard time reproducing the feeling of fading daylight, because they'll try hard to eke out as much light as possible. That's why the shutter speed is so high, in order to make the background quite muted. Then the small aperature allows for sufficient depth of field, but also, very important, keeps the flash from blowing out the foreground, close in. The *only* way to achieve this kind of mix, which goes completely against the camera's "instinct" is to take full manual control...

Cheers,

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Christian Harberts October 17, 2005

Thanks Pat! Vertical panoramas are fun!

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Sandra Freyler November 01, 2005

Love your perspective on this image, christian! Beautiful! #2024672

Christian Harberts November 23, 2005

Thanks Sandra!

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