Hans-Werner Griepentrog, MPSA, EFIAP
About the Image(s)
Title: Waterfight
Since we have the Covid 19 lockdown again in Germany, and I can't take any current sports photos, I took a look at my slide archive. I noticed this photo. It was taken on September 25th, 1999 on the Oker, a small river in the Harz mountains. Once a day the turbines of the hydroelectric power station Okertal are feeding water into the Oker for 2 hours at a flow rate of 8 meters per second. The route is 2 km long and has a difficulty level four (highest level is 6), and is the most demanding kayak and canoe route in Lower Saxony.
In 1992 I was able to have my analog slides digitized by Kodak for the first time. Up to 100 slides could be transferred to a Kodak photo CD. These were stored in Kodak's own PCD format in the resolution of 3072 x 2048 pixels, which corresponded to a 6 megapixel camera, which did not exist at that time with that resolution. In 1999 I also had my whitewater canoe photos transferred to a Kodak photo CD.
The photo was taken with an analog Canon EOS 3 eye control autofocus-system with powerdrive booster PB-E2 and the lens EF 70-200mm f2.8 L on slide film Fujichrome Sensia II 400. Since there was no Exif data available at that time, I manually entered the most important data in my database, f:5.6, ISO 400, at 1/640 sec. motordrive high with 7 frames per second.
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6 comments posted
In most kayaking photos, I usually give high scores for the combination of three items -- visibility of the paddle, the kayaker's face, and the kayak itself. I think this photo would be improved if at least part of the front of the kayak were above the water and clearly visible.
Also, I tried cropping a bit from the bottom and right side of the frame. And I rotated the image slightly to give the paddle more of an angle. I think this rotation and crop improves the composition.   Posted: 12/25/2020 11:37:35