Rusty Anchor - Do any of these "work"

[pitrow]

I found an old rusty anchor in the surf and I snapped a couple pictures of it, playing around with shutter settings. Not sure if any of these "work" or not. Not exactly what I had expected.

C&C most welcome. These are straight from the camera, no PP, just conversion to jpg from DPP.

#1 ISO200 F36 1/6
http://vang.smugmug.com/Boats/Anchor/IMG0039/690041589_EavBB-L.jpg

#2 ISO200 f36 1/13
http://vang.smugmug.com/Boats/Anchor/IMG0042/690041414_NMfqd-L.jpg

#3 ISO200 f36 1/15
http://vang.smugmug.com/Boats/Anchor/IMG0041/690041202_XqSCz-L.jpg

#4 ISO200 f36 1/25
http://vang.smugmug.com/Boats/Anchor/IMG0040/690041030_8BxvJ-L.jpg

I had a couple more but they were too blurry so I dumped them. Thanks for looking!

[drumsfield]

sorry no...

[e02937]

Sorry, no from me as well. For me, part of the problem is it's hard for me to identify that as an anchor except for perhaps the first 1. Second, all of these shots seem to be soft/OOF probably because you shutter speed was fairly slow and it seems like you were shooting handheld? Also you were shooting at a tiny aperture (hence the high shutter speed).

Perhaps you can find it again and try some aperture that is more reasonable and see if you can get your shutter speed to be in an acceptable range for handhold shooting but also maintaining the "implied motion" of the water.

(I could be wrong on you shooting handheld but these don't look like they were on a tripod)

[pitrow]

Sorry, no from me as well. For me, part of the problem is it's hard for me to identify that as an anchor except for perhaps the first 1. Second, all of these shots seem to be soft/OOF probably because you shutter speed was fairly slow and it seems like you were shooting handheld? Also you were shooting at a tiny aperture (hence the high shutter speed).

Perhaps you can find it again and try some aperture that is more reasonable and see if you can get your shutter speed to be in an acceptable range for handhold shooting but also maintaining the "implied motion" of the water.

(I could be wrong on you shooting handheld but these don't look like they were on a tripod)

No you're right, it was hand held on a very bright day. I was just playing around with slow shutter speeds to see the effect. Thanks for the input, you've pretty much confirmed what I was thinking.

[e02937]

Glad I could help a bit. I would tell you that you'd be surprised at how fast your shutter speed can be while still showing movement or blurring water or lights and so forth. You don't have to go insanely slow to get that (which I think is what you were trying to do here).

I would highly recommend Bryan Peterson's book "understanding exposure". It's an easy $15 to spend considering how much can be learned from it :)!