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Took this from a boat on a cruise - 1/10sec handheld!



I'm struggling a bit with the horizon - when I rotate to make the horizon level, the bridge pylon looks silly (leans to the left). This is my attempt at compromise.

C&C Welcome!

VERY impressive given the circumstances. 1/10s on a moving BOAT

could use some fill light to bring it out a little more imo.

1/10 on a moving boat You must have VERY steady hands

Yi-P wrote:1/10 on a moving boat You must have VERY steady hands

Not normally

I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant

Any ideas about the horizon?

Cool.....i like it very much!

Dan

dviv wrote:Any ideas about the horizon?

Did you use an ultra-wide angle lens? If that is the case, try to correct the barrel distortion first then level your horizons...

dviv wrote:I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant

That's a very crude and inconvenient, yet effective image stabilisation technique! Cheaper than a VR/IS lens?

Reschsmooth wrote:

dviv wrote:I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant

That's a very crude and inconvenient, yet effective image stabilisation technique! Cheaper than a VR/IS lens?

Dunno. Boats can get quite expensive.

Especially in terms of maintenance.

Yi-P wrote:Did you use an ultra-wide angle lens? If that is the case, try to correct the barrel distortion first then level your horizons...

Thanks Yi-P

I took the photo with the Canon kit lens (18-55) at 18mm (on 350D so 1.6x).

How would I remove barrel distortion? (bit of a noob at PP )

gstark wrote:Dunno. Boats can get quite expensive.

Especially in terms of maintenance.

 LOL not to mention it's fairly unreliable - took 6 or seven shots to get one (vaguely) sharp one!

spray and pray
ill admit most of my fave pix are flukies..

-j

dviv wrote:

Yi-P wrote:Did you use an ultra-wide angle lens? If that is the case, try to correct the barrel distortion first then level your horizons...

Thanks Yi-P

I took the photo with the Canon kit lens (18-55) at 18mm (on 350D so 1.6x).

How would I remove barrel distortion? (bit of a noob at PP )

It is very hard to tell if it is a barrel distortion to start off with because the image is quite dark there...

But to remove that, if you have PS CS2, just go into filters->distortion->lens correction
and then play around with stuffs inside until you get a good feel of things gone back straight.

Yi-P wrote:It is very hard to tell if it is a barrel distortion to start off with because the image is quite dark there...

But to remove that, if you have PS CS2, just go into filters->distortion->lens correction
and then play around with stuffs inside until you get a good feel of things gone back straight.

Thanks Yi-P - Much appreciated!

I'll give it a go tonight and see what happens

gstark wrote:

Reschsmooth wrote:

dviv wrote:I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant

That's a very crude and inconvenient, yet effective image stabilisation technique! Cheaper than a VR/IS lens?

Dunno. Boats can get quite expensive.

Especially in terms of maintenance.

You are talking about boats and not women, right? (standard "do not tell Alicia I said that" requests apply).

P