Topic: Show Us Your Kayaking Photos

Tagged: aquaterra, brucie, chinook, discount replica watches, kayak, lee moyer

This topic has 3 voices, contains 15 replies, and was last updated by Dennis 893 days ago.

Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 (of 16 total)

1 2 →

Author	Posts
Author	Posts
September 15, 2009 at 11:21 pm #32253
Dennis	Here is a shot I made using my shoe mount battery powered flashes with green gel filters. The flashes were not firing consistently using the Chinese radio remotes but I did manage to get a few shots that I liked. I added a graduated filter to the sky in this one because it was a little washed out. I took this about a half hour before sunset so there was still a lot of ambient light in the sky even at 1/250th second. The f-stop is 5.6 and the ISO is 200. Flashes set to 1/2 power in manual mode.
September 16, 2009 at 12:36 am #32254
Dennis	James paddles in circles for the camera and then takes off in the direction of the sunset.
September 17, 2009 at 11:24 am #32255
Dennis	Here is another shot of my Aquaterra Chinook. I don’t understand why I always have such a hard time getting people excited about my photography projects.
September 17, 2009 at 12:49 pm #32256
James	That’s pretty cool… but why does the boat look like a huge glow stick?
September 17, 2009 at 1:43 pm #32257
Dennis	We were working on this before you showed up. There are two flash units in the kayak with radio triggers synced to a transmitter on the camera. I kept asking TD if the flashes had fired and he kept looking in my direction and saying,”No.” So I’m like, “Tell me if one or both of the flashes go off.” He keeps saying, “No I don’t see any flash.” I’m getting really crabby by this time because of all the flash misfires and say, “Are you telling me you don’t see those flashes going off inside the kayak at all?” “Oh, there are flashes INSIDE the kayak?” “Yes, look at the kayak, not at me…” I seriously think we need to have pre-shoot orientation meetings or hand out programs at these events. ;-)
September 17, 2009 at 7:02 pm #32258
Dennis	The other day when I was taking photos, the kayak kept drifting out into the lake so I decided to tether it this time so I would not have to keep chasing it all the time and risk dropping cameras, radios and flashes into the water. Of course the wind direction changed the day after when I took the next set of photos and the kayak was constantly drifting up on to the beach where I would have to shove and twist to get it back out in the open. Where are the kayak wranglers when you need one? I thought I would change things up and use red gels on the flashes for the next batch. Unfortunately the radio triggers still refused to cooperate, even after I replaced the batteries. The triggers would only fire about half the time and usually only one or the other would fire. I only got the third (fill) flash to fire about three times and had wires, flashes and remotes dangling all over the place as I waded around wrestling the kayak. I did test all this junk ahead of using it and it seemed to be working fine until the moment that I put the flashes in the boat and tried to take a photo. At one point I had a passing thought about what would happen if a fully charged flash came into contact with the water I was standing in…
September 20, 2009 at 12:52 pm #32259
Dennis	A rare moment of peace. Kayaking is as easy as baking a pie! Hey, that’s no soccer mom.
September 21, 2009 at 12:55 pm #32260
Dennis	More family fun night out. Everyone takes a turn around the lake to work up an appetite for dinner.
November 15, 2009 at 2:10 pm #32261
Dennis	Since I got some new wireless triggers for my flashes, I decided to give them a little test to see how they compared with the old triggers I used to take some of the previous photos of my kayak. I’m happy to report that the Yongnuo RF-602 wireless remotes do work more reliably and have better range than the old triggers. Pretty good for inexpensive wireless remotes. If my extra transmitter ever gets delivered I’ll try taking some photos of myself in the kayak.
December 5, 2009 at 11:24 pm #32262
Dennis	Everyone vanished today so I went for a paddle by myself. I decorated Brucie the kayak with some pine roping and ornaments. After I got done paddling around the lake, I put the camera on a tripod and set the interval timer to take a shot about every ten seconds. I threw a couple of gelled flash units in the front and back of the kayak and had another one with a warming gel on shore for some fill flash.
December 6, 2009 at 9:34 am #32263
Bryan Hansel	I have too many to figure out which ones to share, so I’ll share this one. Amy Voytilla, of Wilderness Classrooms, under a waterfall on Lake Superior.
December 6, 2009 at 1:10 pm #32264
Dennis	Cool, I like that. ;-)
December 6, 2009 at 3:47 pm #32265
Bryan Hansel	Thanks. I like the lighted kayak concept, but I’m finding that not having a light in the cockpit distracts me. Did you try dropping a third flash into the cockpit area? I definately like the green gelled flashes better. Fun idea. I took one with the same concept when I was building a skin-on-frame kayak. I was stitching the skin and I set a flash inside the boat to light up the skin and 1/2 of my face. Flash is fun.
December 6, 2009 at 6:08 pm #32266
Dennis	I momentarily forgot what I was doing when I jumped in and kicked the flash forward where I couldn’t reach it anymore. I think an extra flash would be a good idea but I only brought three with me and one was being used for fill from shore. I would like to see photos of the skin and frame kayak.
December 7, 2009 at 5:34 pm #32267
Bryan Hansel	I looked for the SOF picture, but I couldn’t find it on my harddrive. I’ll have to dig deeper onto some old drives. In the meantime a little Lake Superior surf action: