The bar has been set... can you beat THIS shot?

pretty awesome...



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this is an amazing shot. it almost looks too good to be real. any post processing? where is this? how did you take it? what equipment?

thanks for sharing.

Wow! Amazing shot.

Wow!

U da' Man!

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Incredible.....

What a fantastic photograph but was it a chance occurrence or did the photographer have to be extremely patient to at a known location for this scene to unfold. What equipment was used and what is the exif? While every photographer that sees this must wonder about it they must also think what an awesome picture -- why was I not there.
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Poor effort really..................badly timed................half a second earlier and you would have got most of them in full flight!

LOL.............................fantastic!.....................almost ghostly.
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I'm disappointed. I was expecting something on par with forum's usual posted pictures of somebody's children.

I almost feel wet, having been showered with the mist of sea water when looking at that photo.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb here.... I checked your previous postings and even clicked on your link for your "homepeage" or what ever it is. I finally found that you actually typed once that your name is "John"

You are treading on thin ice here. Already two people have commented that they thought that YOU took the picture. You should have QUICKLY jumped in and said that it wasn't your picture and then reminded them that Andrew Wong IS the photographer. From the start you should have clearly typed in the post that it is HIS photograph and that it is not yours.

I got on someone else's case about this before. Your need to be 100 percent clear that you are posting a phototgraph BY ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPHER. HE deserves the full credit and you can't even let anyone here mistakenly assume that it is yours.

Your reason for posting Andrew Wong's picture is to try to keep the photography level high here and THAT I agree with, but the danger of letting it look like it is your photograph is quite high as the responses here have proven.

I want to stress, that you need to REALLY make it clear that it is someone else's picture and quickly jump in if anyone mistakenly assumes it is yours. If you don't do that, I think that it is not worth posting the pictures for "inspiration".... because it would look like you are trying to post someone else's pictures as your own.

Sorry for sounding like a jerk, but this is a slippery slope here.

Guy Moscoso

i agree he probably should have replied reminding other posters that it wasn't his photograph, though i do think the name "Andrew Wong" written in large letters in the bottom left of the photograph was obvious enough in the first place.

I guess people were distracted by the photo itself

I'll give the OP the benefit of the doubt in that the photo isn't badged as his, but I find posts like this pointess on here. What is he trying to say? Can you find a better image on the net and abuse someone's copyright by posting it here? Are is he suggesting we all pop down to our local highstreet and find something better?

The shot itself is obviously one which anyone would be proud of. The classic 'right place at the right time' grab, the key to any great shot - nothing of photographic note in that any camera would have done the same job with almost any setting - the knack was being there in the first place.

That fish on the left if far too tight a crop, but mainly overlooked in the general melee where composition takes a somewhat secondary role.

I can't resist calling these fish - we all know that they aren't fish at all, they are insects. And before I pass that line off as my own, I'll acknowledge the Peter Cook part of his Dudley Moore duo.
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Make your own mind up - there are no rules in this game.

The last time I brought this up with another poster, I wound up learning about the real owner of that picture. That phtotgrapher actually travelled around the world to a place penguins were gathered. He spent big bucks and WENT to the place to get the shots he wanted. It almost wasn't luck. He MADE the shot happen. It had NOTHING to do with gear and EVERYTHING to do with his profession. That last post was trying to show how the 18-200VR was good enough for a pro and a pro could make it look good so we could maybe get the same results, too. And that kind of connection is simply hogwash. The Pro did everything right and the things that he did have nothing to do with the stuff we as happy hobbyists are capable of.

My best guess without googling Mr Wong, is that he knew this location and positioned himself to GET that shot. He probably had lots of shots to choose from... You and I standing on the shore with our gear, simply pointing our gear at pretty objects is not in the same league. Yes we can aspire to get better, but none of us would use the resources to go and get the shot like Mr Wong did.

So, we turn the cameras on ourselves and our pets and our kids... the stuff we got sitting around. Yes it's boring, but unfortunately, most of our lives here are boring. Heck, we're sitting at home typing on a forum about gear. I'm a full fledged member of this group of boring people.

What I think is most productive on these forums is hints on trying to make the boring lives we have, look better. Mr Wong's photo, doesn't scream HOW to even do that. Yes it's a gourgeous shot, but without more info it is sort of useless... First and foremost, I believe that if you are going to use the time to herald the shot, you should do the "right" thing and type a sentence to explain at least who he is. Anything else like techniques related to our gear would be the icing on the cake.

Guy Moscoso

The OP started with "pretty awesome" ... I believe is clearly for anybody in good faith that he didn't imply it's his own photo.

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I sure wish it was my photo, or at least, that I would have been there when it was taken.......I would have most likely messed it up but my what an opportunity.
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Just trying to learn and it's slow going!

By the way, according to another photo of his on that National Geographic site, Andrew Wong shoots with a Fuji S2.

A google search brought up the following:

This is a wallpaper from the National Geographic International Photography contest. This photo was taken by Andrew Wong off the coast of South Africa.

Photo by Andrew Wong -

This pod of bottlenose dolphins was leisurely surfing in the waves as the offshore wind blew against the incoming waves, creating an atmosphere that was most unique and magical. At a place called Waterfall Bluff in the Transkei, South Africa.

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BillCarr said:

By the way, according to another photo of his on that National
Geographic site, Andrew Wong shoots with a Fuji S2.

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According to an article by Bob Krist, who writes for the Outdoor Photographer magazine, the minimum requirements of NG is to shoot with a 6MP DSLR camera.

Bob Krist's articles are at: http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/columns/photo-traveler.html

the watermark on the image clearly states who took the photo, that is why I didn't think it needed any clarification. Just because someone posts an image, it doesn't mean it's theirs.

For the record, as with any of the submissions like this that I've submitted before, it was submitted by someone else on digg.com, who also didn't take the picture.

gmosc said:

I'm gonna go out on a limb here.... I checked your previous postings
and even clicked on your link for your "homepeage" or what ever it
is. I finally found that you actually typed once that your name is
"John"

You are treading on thin ice here. Already two people have commented
that they thought that YOU took the picture. You should have QUICKLY
jumped in and said that it wasn't your picture and then reminded them
that Andrew Wong IS the photographer. From the start you should have
clearly typed in the post that it is HIS photograph and that it is
not yours.

I got on someone else's case about this before. Your need to be 100
percent clear that you are posting a phototgraph BY ANOTHER
PHOTOGRAPHER. HE deserves the full credit and you can't even let
anyone here mistakenly assume that it is yours.

Your reason for posting Andrew Wong's picture is to try to keep the
photography level high here and THAT I agree with, but the danger of
letting it look like it is your photograph is quite high as the
responses here have proven.

I want to stress, that you need to REALLY make it clear that it is
someone else's picture and quickly jump in if anyone mistakenly
assumes it is yours. If you don't do that, I think that it is not
worth posting the pictures for "inspiration".... because it would
look like you are trying to post someone else's pictures as your own.

Sorry for sounding like a jerk, but this is a slippery slope here.

Guy Moscoso

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