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Challenge: Stopped Motion VII (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon
Date: Jan 27, 2015
Date Uploaded: Feb 1, 2015



[Feb. 8th, 2015 11:49:38 AM]

Thanks for the comments.

This was taken during the big storm we had last week. Went down to the water around high tide to see what I could see.

I was expecting beautiful plumes of water shooting into the sky, with ooohs and aaahs from the crowd of huddled hot-chocolate drinkers.

What I got was a biting-cold continuous sea spray in my face and a mix of sea water and road-salted slush on a bed of ice under my feet.

In short time I couldn't feel my toes, and by that time I had already lost some fingers. The camera wasn't really focusing very well, the iso settings were on something I didn't want but lacked the dexterity to change. I took a few horrible photos of the scene, blurry from a slow shutter, missed focus, poorly composed. And then I ran home as fast as I could.

I didn't even realize there was a stop-motion challenge until a few days later, and thought something from that ill-advised adventure might work. So I played with a closer version of this, and the railing reminded me of sheet music, and I couldn't pass up the "Sea Sharp" pun. But then I switched it out with this one, where the music bars aren't nearly as noticeable a feature, but stuck with the title anyway and over-sharpened the living daylights out of it to try to compensate for the poor image quality.

Statistics
Place: 6 out of 39
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02/10/2015 02:21:09 AM
Beautiful frozen music sheet. Congrats on he top 10!
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02/09/2015 10:37:50 AM
Definitely worth facing the cold weather, congratulations on your top 10 image.
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02/09/2015 08:48:18 AM
Originally posted by bohemka:

...and over-sharpened the living daylights out of it to try to compensate for the poor image quality.

A technique I have used many times. Nicely done, Scott. Sounds like you guys are getting buried in snow some more.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/08/2015 08:24:58 PM
Fabulous! Looks like it is snap frozen. One of my ribbon choices.
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02/08/2015 05:00:43 PM
The cold comes right through. Well done
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02/08/2015 10:07:10 AM
Pretty cool shot, shows power, looks a little over sharpened though :)
Already voted.
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02/07/2015 02:27:48 AM
this is really amazing, If you got your feet wet it was worth it!! 9
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02/04/2015 05:11:11 AM
Interesting usage of the sea to be something else entirely. Looks nearly like some alien plant.
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02/02/2015 10:54:57 PM
This is a very nice shot. 7
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02/02/2015 10:16:45 PM
sharp indeed
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02/02/2015 07:54:09 AM
One of my tops and what a capture good you were able to capture some of hte storm coming in that side of the world is having some interesting times for sure. Glad your safe though :-))
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