Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Kayak shots from the recycle bin

Most of the shots I take from the kayak are crappy.  The most usual problem is overexposure, because the exposure compensation on my old compact camera has to be adjusted for almost every shot that has the sky in it.  Problems handling the camera in the waterproof bag cause framing and other problems.  Sometimes the shot would have been junk anyhow, but I'd rather blame the camera than myself.

The waterproof bag's lens cap thing needs to be held open.  The wooden structure is identified as "dike 14" on the NOAA charts.

I guess I need a brighter flash.

Framing and focus problems.

Overexposed.
Water spots on the bag, and an edge of the part of the bag meant for the lens is showing.
A bit overexposed.
Out of focus, overexposed sky.  This was a blind shot, so I guess I'm lucky I got anything at all.
Overexposed.
I can't remember why I put this in the recycle bin.  It seems like a decent image in spite of its problems.

The casio has a special feature called "digital zoom" that it uses to ruin images.  Digital zoom is very easily activated by mistake.  Digital zoom really, really sucks.
This is from the one time that I saw a harbor seal in the strait.  I got a couple of other pictures of it, but they weren't as good as this one.

I don't know why I threw this one out.

Almost every picture I took of the Peace Lucky was overexposed, like this one is.
Overexposed.  It might have been an interesting anyway if I had been able to zoom in more.

Has glare from the camera bag.

Nothing's in focus.  What was the stupid camera looking at?

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