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Now who could resist a good pun like that one?
Just so you don't make her mad enough to shoot back. Her cannons have a rather large aperature and lots of power.
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Yes, they really do look nice don't they? They're also a classic "rule of thirds" shot, with the ship offset to the 1/3 point.
If you were take the same shot and center it, you'd be amazed at how much impact you'd lose in the image. It really makes a big difference!
So true! Nice timing on this shot Bob.
Thanks! It was amazingly difficult to get a shot of the muzzle flash. I was there for all five days, took thousands of shots, and got maybe 3 with good muzzle flash.
Even on this cruise, where I followed the powder monkey around, watched her light the fuse, fired on continuous rapid fire mode, and still have lots of sequences where you see the fuse light, sparks and smoke, and then the next shot has just the smoke from the cannon. The flash is so incredibly fast it's nearly impossible to catch.
In fact, I only got one photo that really has the effect I wanted.
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Yes, amazingly rare... As I mentioned, I was there for the entire event (I was one of the Tacoma Tall Ship's large crew of volunteer photographers), I took thousands of photos, and spent many hours on the water photographing the tall ships, both from on board and on chase boats. That included probably six to eight of the cannon battles. Out of all of those, I got ONE shot like that. Not for lack of trying.... None of the others even came close as far as muzzle flash.
Often skill and good gear will only get you so far, then you simply have to depend on luck, or if you want to make it sound better "serendipity".
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Now who could resist a good pun like that one?
Just so you don't make her mad enough to shoot back. Her cannons have a rather large aperature and lots of power.
View attachment 2967
Yes, they really do look nice don't they? They're also a classic "rule of thirds" shot, with the ship offset to the 1/3 point.
If you were take the same shot and center it, you'd be amazed at how much impact you'd lose in the image. It really makes a big difference!
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So true! Nice timing on this shot Bob.
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Thanks! It was amazingly difficult to get a shot of the muzzle flash. I was there for all five days, took thousands of shots, and got maybe 3 with good muzzle flash.
Even on this cruise, where I followed the powder monkey around, watched her light the fuse, fired on continuous rapid fire mode, and still have lots of sequences where you see the fuse light, sparks and smoke, and then the next shot has just the smoke from the cannon. The flash is so incredibly fast it's nearly impossible to catch.
In fact, I only got one photo that really has the effect I wanted.
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Yes, amazingly rare... As I mentioned, I was there for the entire event (I was one of the Tacoma Tall Ship's large crew of volunteer photographers), I took thousands of photos, and spent many hours on the water photographing the tall ships, both from on board and on chase boats. That included probably six to eight of the cannon battles. Out of all of those, I got ONE shot like that. Not for lack of trying.... None of the others even came close as far as muzzle flash.
Often skill and good gear will only get you so far, then you simply have to depend on luck, or if you want to make it sound better "serendipity".
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Went out again today, and proved how hard it is to capture the muzzle flash. Here's the best one I got, you can barely see the flames to the right...
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