This might be the best I can do. Looks cold anyway!
stanley lakecopy by Thad Gerheim, on Flickr
This might be the best I can do. Looks cold anyway!
stanley lakecopy by Thad Gerheim, on Flickr
Thad Gerheim
Website: http:/thadgerheimgallery.com
What a great assignment this would be...to "make a photograph of water that looks wet." Kind of like when Alfred Eisenstaedt was assigned to "make snow look like sugar" (which he did!).
But do I have any existing photos which might qualify? I think I just might...but will need to dig them up and post them for assessment.
Thad Gerheim
Website: http:/thadgerheimgallery.com
This one had a 1-second shutter speed at f/45. The water is moving, but still looks more wet than silk to me.
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, 1992
But this one I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to keep the bubbles distinct but still provide sufficient depth of field around the tilted focal plane. I did want some sense of movement in the falls but without those bubbles in the foreground becoming indistinct. This was a 1/15-second exposure at f/22.
Espada Dam (ca. 1730), San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, 1993
Rick "old stuff" Denney
I see motion etc. associated with water in most of the images, but few really read "wet" to me.
Interesting challenge to represent a reflective material with transmitted light (computer screen).
Perhaps a better goal is to have an image of water that feels wet -- not look wet.
An old image, one of my early 4x5s...first time taking a 4x5 backpacking for sure. About 1980. A girlfriend who did not enjoy having her photo taken...along Canyon Creek in the Trinity Alps of northern CA..
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
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