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Published: 2009-04-30 08:59:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 1982; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 0
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I ended up with wet shoes taking these picsThis picture is taken at the ocean facing side, of the ocean swimming pool in my city Newcastle
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Man--:mog: I gotta spend more time in your gallery 
Really nice composition--I like the intersecting lines of the (?) handrails. Well done!
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my feet sure did get very wet that morning, and there's nothing worse than squishing around with wet shoes and socks haha oh well what us photographers put ourselves through chasing that '
thanks so much for your kind comments
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Your gallery was recommended to me by and I am so happy he did!
This shot is absolutely breathtaking. One can feel the power of the ocean, of the waves...and I am not surprised that your shoes went wet!
I love the light and how the golden sand reflects on the metal... things (I speak Spanish... I don't know how to call the metal bars)
Honest congratulations. This is awesome!
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I'll have to remember to thank the great John, he's a lovely fella, your encouragement and comments are really appreciated
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John is a great person. We are close friends!
He did good in telling me about you !
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aww, I agree 110% John is a very caring person
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Thats a fine effort Matt, Great composition and the shutter speed is perfect. I like the golden light comming in and I tend to think its a light bright photo and not what I'd call overexposed. Well done
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cheers, thanks heaps Dave, i was after bright light with the soft water, the biggest thing i'm happy about this photo was 1/3sec shutter speed hand held ... even with my shaky hands, mind you i did take a bucket load just to get the one good one
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you did good son... give yourself a high five!
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How do you do that?? The softness of the water is beautiful..
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Thanks so much Katy, if you have moving water you go for longer or as long as you can shutter speed, so you either need a tripod or steedy hands. This one of mine the shutter speed is 1/3sec so because the water is moving it captures it moving and makes it look all soft and fluffy ... i hope that makes sense.
To get a slower shutter speed you can set your aperture to the smallest probably f22 or something, it depends on your lens and remember aperture is confusing because the higher the number the smaller the aperture. Anyway, set it to the highest and let the camera set the shutter speed, or try setting the shutter speed manually (anything from say 1/50sec will capture moving water) and let the camera set the aperture. I hope this helps
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Nice shot, slightly overexposed but that could be fixed with a b&w conversion
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thank you so much, i hadn't thought about b&w for this, but it might look nice
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Thank you so so much Joyce !!! omg you're fantastic, you know everything you explained that is EXACTLY what i was trying to capture 
Your encouragement and support is awesome Joyce 
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gahh i wish i was there! it looks so frothy and fast paced and gushy
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If you swam just off here YES you would get hit on the rocks, but just to the right of this picture is the beach, it's all just nice and sandy
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ok lol,
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i was born and bred here and i dont want to go anywhere else, and i never take it for granted .... but what are you saying you live in the caribbean
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i'm in for the swap, and ive done a bit of travel ... but i really want to do more
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yay 
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will you come to the cricket with me?
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hmm, i dont know, maybe i can make an exeption for a foreigner lol. i love playing cricket, and the Oval looks fun, but believe it or not, i've nevr been to a cricket match there before, i guess i'm missing some essential part of living here by not doin that, i just can't stand looking at them play for sooooooooooo long an not be out there myself hehe
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so awesome that you play. I'll buy you a few drinks haha you'll have fun
Is cricket still very popular sport to play there?, i mean like among teenagers, i saw a show a few years back now saying it was always cricket cricket cricket, but now the younger sportsmen are playing more basketball because there is more money in it if you're good enough
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0_o really? well, i don't think basketball is really that popular here. when it comes to sports among teens the competition is between football and cricket for the top spot
Its cricket, cricket, cricket still because of the W.I. team and their ranking, which i believe is high, and our teenage national teams do good too, its all heritage and all that so its definitely in our veins, basketball would only have more money than in cricket if u scholarship from here to some other country like america or something, its not widespread enough.
p.s. i'm wondering, what time is it in Australia right now? its 7:10pm here
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it's 9.16am .. wednesday though ... and yeah that's what it was saying was like the top elite sprtsteens are getting scholarships to the states so they end up never making the top cricket
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since i'm such a football critic, i can't seem to bring myself to love our football team as much as i appreciate our cricket team 
+ That's so cool that yall r already at Wednesday lol, that time tomoro i'll be at school, excited for the barca vs chelsea match @2:30pm
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my local team the Newcastle Jets is in the Asian champions ... we won the Australian league last year
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my team just won XD, hope ur's did.
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yay 
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omg are your shoes making that squish squish noise when you walk now 
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awww thank you so much for your kind words Hira
haha Hira about the shoes ...
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ohh he was an awesome boss, he was so generous like that, he would have done it cause it was pissing him off, but he wasnt mad
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haha he was like that, once he had made his mind up, that was it, and he had decided those boots were in the bin !! lol
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I like the texture of the water. Seems to be the perfect shutter speed to show the wave motion.
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Thanks so much John ... 1/3 sec it's about the slowest my shaking hands will go ... i'll let you in on a secret there were quite a few blurries deleted
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Wow, I would need a tripod at that speed! I'll have to experiment some more now.
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i hold it as steady as i can and put it on continous shooting and roll off say 3-4 shots, then cross your fingers that you at least get one
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that's lovely! how do you get the frames? I've been trying on photoshop and it's really difficult to get them to the size I want!!
I'm not sure if my photo's would benefit from frames though or if I should just leave them as they are.
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aww thanks Milly, i use Gimp mostly and i use a script function in gimp to do them ... i do have photoshop though so i'll take a look and see if there is a similar way of doing it and let you know
Gimp is a free program and it's really good, its similar to photoshop, if you'd like the details i can give you a link to download it and a link to some really good tutorial vids, let me know its no bother
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This has been featured in my latest journal Matt [link]
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omg 
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You are very welcome Matt
It's a pity that you can't make to Katoomba.
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