Christine. Excellent shots and a very unusual day. I wish I had gone shooting it. The winds from the north made the water in Lake Michigan slosh like a bathtub. The wind surfers were CRAZY. 45 mph winds and 20 foot swells, CRAZY! Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > We had exceptional winds today, so I thought I’d head to the lake to catch > some waves. The white caps were prominent to be sure, and there was a bit of > splashing waves a tad north of where we were. Higher waves, which flooded > bits of Lake Shore drive, could be found south of us—closer to downtown. We > were up north by Wilson ave. > > Anywhooo, The spot we stopped at is the put-in spot for jet skis and > windsurfers and such, and we got lucky since a handful of windsurfers were > taking advantage of the high winds—and boy were the winds high. > > It was really hard to take pictures. I couldn’t keep the camera or myself > steady. The wind was coming from the northeast, and if I tried to shoot into > the wind, sand carried along by the wind stung my face so bad—for the first > time, I was glad to be wearing glasses! By the end of the shoot, I had sand > everywhere, hair, mouth, ears, and even in my camera bag. I had to do a big > shake-out when I got home. > > Darrel was with me, and he tried to act as wind-break for me, but it didn’t > really help much. It was such an exhilarating shoot—lots of fun to try to > deal with the elements while trying to shoot. I’d like to do more bad > weather shooting—though I don’t think I’d like to chase tornados and such. > > I really would have loved a longer lens. Most of the photos below are deep > crops. I did the best I could with the DA* 50-135. > > So I have a question: Darrel thinks were were about 100 yards (a football > field) from the surfers. Given this distance, which would have worked > better, a 200mm or 300 mm prime to catch the surfer action? > > > http://www.caguila.com/windyday/index.html > > Cheers, Christine > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
