{"id":37,"date":"2010-03-10T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/GBay_Blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-11-20T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T15:19:57","slug":"the-imperfect-moment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"The Imperfect Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is an interesting shot, several things are wrong with it, but a couple of things worked, as\u00a0well.\u00a0 The frame is from a roll shot\u00a0as an experiment.\u00a0 This is a newly available film, Arista Premium available from Henrys in Canada.\u00a0 Its\u00a0budget priced, targetted at students I’m told, a short roll (24 frames), rated at 400 ISO.\u00a0 Processing was a guess, as no data was available at the time.\u00a0 I processed it in Xtol at 1:3 for 8 1\/2 minutes, temp was a little high at 23 C.\u00a0 The “Massive Dev Chart” at digitaltruth.com on the Web now includes this film.\u00a0 Shot with an old AIS\u00a0Nikon 28mm f2.8 lens and Nikomat FTN\u00a0(home market version of the Nikkormat).\u00a0 That’s the technical stuff.<\/p>\n

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The outstanding feature in this shot is the UFO in the upper left corner.\u00a0 These things happen when your rushed.\u00a0 It can be a challange to compose a scene, make the manual camera adjustments, steady the\u00a0camera, take the picture, all while in a Kayak and not drift right past that perfect composition, or end up on the rocks.\u00a0 Not an easy thing when the wind is up.<\/p>\n

A little less obvious is the Inuksuk in lower right of the image.\u00a0 I did spot this while setting up for the shot.\u00a0 The original idea behind the shot was to work with the white clouds, the sloping rocks, and the blackness of the water line.\u00a0 When I spotted\u00a0it, it became a go with the flow situation.\u00a0 I have a personal issue with these rock sculptures.\u00a0 I feel that they have become a form of graffiti,\u00a0rather than being the cultural icon that\u00a0they were.\u00a0 These little rock piles show up\u00a0everywhere now, saying “I was here”.\u00a0 A human has\u00a0left a little pile here, for all to see, possibly for decades.<\/p>\n

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The luck of this shot wasn’t apparent until after I’d taken several frames.\u00a0 While not uncommon in our little corner of Georgian Bay, they are usually not seen in the open, in the middle of the day.\u00a0 Naturally reserved, they prefer to remain invisible except for their droppings and upturned rocks.\u00a0 Image my surprise when I lowered the camera, to see a Bear studying me.\u00a0 “Is this creature on the water a threat to me, should I go for the water now, or wait? and what does he think he’s doing anyway.”<\/p>\n

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The exaggerated perspective of a wide-angle lens suggests this animal was a long distance away.\u00a0 In fact the bow of my Kayak was only\u00a0several feet from the shoreline rocks, and the Bear was perhaps\u00a0forty feet away.\u00a0 A quick change of cameras (I try to always have a backup), we’re more closely focused on a nature moment.<\/p>\n

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This is an interesting shot, several things are wrong with it, but a couple of things worked, as\u00a0well.\u00a0 The frame is from a roll shot\u00a0as an experiment.\u00a0 This is a newly available film, Arista Premium available from Henrys in Canada.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}