Walking on Water

Finally arrived back home for an extended period time. Since the last blog I've been on the road quite a bit and its been just plain fun, we've been all over the place and had a lot of different, good skiing which is an awesome way to end the season. Some pow in Whistler, sunny park riding at Hood, and a rainy Cricket Jam in Portland.

Through all this travel I've gotten a lot of different material to shoot and it has been working out really good. I'm loving the new shots and you'll be seeing some updates and maybe even some new portfolios on S6photo.com in the near future.

But for now its time for the story behind the shot.

I like this photo quite a bit. There isn't much of anything to distract the eye from the subject. All it is is a person, their shadow, and a fairly blank, undescript background. The horizon doesn't really lead you into anything else and the background doesn't show where the area is or could be. Nothing special, but I'm happy it isn't anything special because the viewer can now easily see the illusion of walking on the water without being distracted. This is why I like it, all there is is a man walking on water. The hardest thing for me in a photo is to simplify it down to one idea and I feel I've done a fairly good job with this image.

Now that you know what I think it's time to hear about the interesting things like how he's walking on water.

We found this zone on the way to Whistler, its outside of Vancouver a few miles off the highway. We were originally looking for a beech so we could check the ocean out but after some backroads exploring we found this marsh area and decided to see where it went, which ended up being the spot of the photo and arguably one of the most different oceanside places I have ever seen.

It changed from marsh to sand which looked like it rolled into the ocean. The water was completely still which I thought was a little weird, so I checked it and was surprised to see that the water wasn't more than an inch deep for a long ways out. We walked as far as we could and I snapped this photo of Rob, he appears to be walking on water but he's really just standing on sand that has a very shallow layer of water on it. Its always nice when something like a detour to the ocean can turn into a great photo opportunity.

This zone has potential. Next time I'm in the area I plan on lugging some strobes out there and arriving a little before sunrise, if it turns out looking something like what I'm seeing in my head I should leave with a new portfolio photo.

Recently people have been interested in the photos that I think are crap. Because of this, for the photos of the week I'm mixing what I think are some good images with some I'm not sure about. Its interesting to hear what people have to say so leave a comment. No ones opinion is wrong and I'll read and try to apply all the comments.

Images of the week:

And on a lighter note, here's the portrait of the week: