I went to Bowman Lake with this picture in mind. I thought that with the burst mode of my new camera, this would be easy! Guess again, bucko! 105 photos later! Many did not have any splashes at all, some had the rock on it's way to the water, but a few had the effect I wanted.
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You can certain feel the motion here. You know exactly what is going on in the photo without having to read a thing. I like the fact that you have smooth water up-close and ripples in the background. It gives nice perspective.
Looks like a hard shot to get and pretty poor lighting too. My main issue is that I don't think the shutter was fast enough - I'd like it more with a faster shutter/ maybe higher ISO to really freeze the droplets that are in the air and to give a crisper splash.
A great idea and good execution apart from that though.
Unique sequence of stop-action captures -- I suspect this was trickier than it looks, or else used trickery I don't notice...How long did you have to wait between throws?
ahhh superb use of black and white here... plus the shot is really creative and a great idea!!! If I were to try and recreate it, I would like to see a time lapse of a few secs and a super long line of skips on the water would look like...
That looks great. The only thing I would change is the focus on the droplets in the air. if they were in focus better this would definately be a ten. Oh maybe a tighter crop to exclude the ripples in the top background area if the front droplets were in focus better.
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