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	went to the city (Seattle) recently
	'last week, I went to a getMETAsmart event put on by The Stock Artists Alliance at Seattle Pacific Univ. If your photography of any value - any kind of value... you need to know this stuff. The presentation was excellent. I'm changing some things I'm doing and will be adding more... ad hoc quid pro quo so little time so much to know... and on my ferry ride home aboard the WA State Ferry Kitsap, I recorded this as well as many others. That boat has a strange vibration to it different than the others I noticed it when the camera was at my eye and me rising up slightly on my toes to dampen most of the inherent vibration transferred through the deck... actually exchanging vibration for muscle motion... (and depending on how much coffee and time on the feet... no alcohol involved but it might have helped steady or not) and it also seems to move through the water differently... it's flow, I mean... (or it may have been someone that steers differently)... </tangent> Seattle spring night from the ferry Kitsap enroute to Bremerton ©2009 Ed Book Camera Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II lens 24mm exposure 1/4 sec @ f/4 ISO 3200 key things here are the very slow for hand held camera at age 61 62 on a moving ferry and it's compensation of using an image stabilized lens and very wide (for full frame sensor) lens.... I also rose up on the balls of my feet and leaned against a bulkhead (nautical name for 'wall"). Because I was using such a wide angle lens my position wasn't nearly as far as it appears in the image. I was close enough that I was looking up at the buildings. You can see the slight tilting of the tall buildings due to perspective distortion from pointing the camera upward. Peace Tags: -print available-, metadata, motion, nautical, night, puget sound, wa

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	From: courier_iii	Date: June 19th, 2009 08:15 am (UTC)		(Link)

Want to come to my place and try something similar? Macy's has moved its 4th of July fireworks from the East River to the Hudson. There will be six barges from in front of my office north to 50th street.
40,000 shells will be detonated in 26 minutes.

This could be interesting.
...and noisy.
... The building will be in full lockdown.
... ... And I'll probably watch it from Pittsburgh.

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	From: edbook	Date: June 19th, 2009 06:34 pm (UTC)		(Link)

fireworks have gotten out of hand here in WA as there are stands as thick as coffee stands selling whatever. The noise for a couple days is stressful for Hoodoo and the pasture girls as well as for me. Sounds like a warzone... the stats for weather is for 70% of the time to be raining on the 4th and 40% for the day after but in recent years our dry season has started already. (yeah we get a lot of rain but almost none in the summer... (we actually get less rain here on our peninsula than you do there on the Hudson)

Many years ago, I found myself on the end of a long pier working on an uninterruptable ship's reactor system process with one of those unforseeable delays waiting for system conditions to fall into place that happens in such on the 4th. Our location was perfect (except without cameras) for Port Orchard's (the town across Sinclair Inlet) (Fathoms of Fun) big festival of the year firework's display. We were much closer from the backside to the fireworks barges than Port Orchard was and closer than they were allowing boats. We sat on the end of the pier wishing we had our families with us. It happened three times in a row and by the third time, we were expecting a delay and would have been disappointed had the process been underway when we got there.

I tend to stay at home watching for the neighborhood to catch fire.

Where in the Pittsburgh area are you going? I'm from Beaver Falls, about 26 miles north of the city.

don't splode...

Peace

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	From: courier_iii	Date: June 20th, 2009 01:16 am (UTC)		(Link)

"D" and Matthew are on the Delmont side of Greensburg. [north side, not south of Rt22.] - It's roughly 25 miles east. 5 July is Matt's 19th. One of the firm's that I service is closer though - in Sewickley. I talk with them several times a week.

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	From: poetpaladin	Date: June 19th, 2009 08:50 am (UTC)		(Link)

That's pretty sweet there, Ed.

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	From: thoughtsbykat	Date: June 19th, 2009 12:34 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Wow!

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	From: ladycelia	Date: June 19th, 2009 01:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Love the play of light on moving water.

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	From: crisavec	Date: June 19th, 2009 01:46 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Thats really cool.

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	From: shatterpath	Date: June 19th, 2009 02:50 pm (UTC)		(Link)

That ferry run really does have one of the most gorgeous skyline views in the world! I never tire of it and too seldomly get to see it at night.

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	From: kaleidoscopeeye	Date: June 19th, 2009 03:08 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I love this photo and this post with the explanations of how you did it :) Nice work as always, Ed.

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	From: dsparklingb	Date: June 19th, 2009 03:26 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Wow that is amazing... thanks for sharing how the image was captured - don't think I'd be able to pull it off!

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	From: edbook	Date: June 19th, 2009 07:25 pm (UTC)		(Link)

just push the doohickey

Peace

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	From: zeppo_marx	Date: June 19th, 2009 04:08 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Excellent job getting this done hand-held!

I ran into a guy last spring who was out shooting long-exposures of small waterfalls. He was using a little home-built Steady-cam system and, as he explained it, it let him get into a lot of spots that would just be impossible (or darned risky) to stick a tripod (like trying to set up a tripod in the middle of a fast-moving stream) and he said that he had a pretty good success rate at around a second with his rig.

He was combining the steady-cam (looked kinda like this one), an IS lens, a two-second shutter-delay and a remote shutter release he had taped to the handle to let him concentrate just on steadying the shot after hitting the shutter.

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	From: jblindsight	Date: June 19th, 2009 04:08 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Brings back good memories

Beautiful! The skyline has changed a little in 30 years, but the experience is always magical. We had our senior party on a ferry, and no one (surprisingly) ended up in the water. It was great fun.

Thanks Ed!

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