1/320sec 73mm f/10 ISO 100
Today I went over to the Radio Island beach access. You don’t really go on the island, but you can see it from the beach. It is a nice little are with some calm waters. It was a bit chilly today, for eastern NC, but it was still nice to walk on the beach and change up my scenery a bit. I grabbed a few nice shots of the actual beach, but when I came upon today’s photo, I knew I found something awesome. Actually, I wasn’t sure what I found. It looks like a jellyfish and I’m going to go with that, but I was a bit surprised how heavy it was. I snapped a few pictures to start, but the thing was too far away from the breaking water so I tried to push it out more with my foot. It proved harder than I expected, but the task got completed. I lowered my camera closer to the ground and grabbed a few shots as the water cascaded on the back side of this UBO (Unidentified Beached Object).
In Lightroom, I turned up the clarity and contrast a bit to give it more of a lifeless look. I played with a gradient to bring in some color from the top right. I am happy with the detail in the image and the contrast of the blue and yellow. It was definitely a great find and helped me get over my internal struggle of finding new and interesting topics (especially after this weekend).
Until tomorrow.
Stunning image! And I love the title of this post! Hilarious
Thanks, Gina.
Dan, I don’t know why I thought of you, but I think you’ll love this! Try it! It really works! Maybe even give me feed back on how you think its done!
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/04/23/images-that-only-appear-through-long-exposure-photos/
That is pretty neat, Anna. It definitely has to do with the green/blue/red color dots that are on the monitor. I know Red and Green are used with 3D, so there must be something that occurs when those colors get stretched out over a second. Cool find.
Ah! That would make sense! Thank you for replying! I’m still quite baffled but will take this further! I’ve copied and pasted someone’s own response into how it could’ve been made…
”Each ‘dot’ makes up part of the image, every time that dot lights up, it exposes that part of the photograph. The longish shutter time allows enough of them to be seen to expose the image properly. Just imagine one big ‘dot’ the size of the photo, if it flashed you would see the whole photo at once. Cut it in half and flash one side after the other, you have the whole image. Cut it in to enough pieces and each small bit will look like a dot rather than part of a larger image. It’s possible that they may be further broken down into exposing each colour chanel seperatley for each dot.” – So like you say – Green/blue/red!
Glad you enjoyed it!