Category Archives: South Carolina

Photographer’s Choice – Sam Sink

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All In a Day’s Play

or, as Lissa Brown suggests,

It’s Tough to be Cool

Sam Sink - Fountain Play at Hilton Head

Sam Sink – Fountain Play at Hilton Head

New member Sam Sink has submitted the above playful image as his “Photographer’s Choice”. He and his wife were vacationing at Hilton Head, SC in March of this year where this photo was taken. It’s always tempting to capture kids at play when their attention is focused on simply having fun with no awareness that a camera is looking. One can imagine the laughter and joy that surrounded the scene and possibly the daredevil attitude of flirting with the water spout and then the surprise when the water suddenly shot up and away went the hat.
Sam used a shutter speed of 1/400 sec, fast enough to stop the action at it’s peak. The other settings reflect the bright, sunny day with an f/stop of 7.1 and a low ISO of 100. The lens focal length was 140mm which, on his Canon T1i, is equivalent to 225mm on a 35mm camera.

Photographer’s Choice – Peyton Hale

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“…most intense sunrise scenarios I’ve seen in years.”

Peyton Hale - Twilight at Edisto Island, SC

Peyton Hale - Twilight at Edisto Island, SC

The world’s population is projected to reach 7 billion by April of this year and yet the earth can still appear desolate, prehistoric, with a beauty almost beyond human imagination. A photographer in the right place at the right moment can attempt to capture this magnificent world. Peyton has come close with this image.
To succeed it can take dedicated effort. Peyton writes, “I departed Raleigh at 12:30 am and drove south 5 hours to Edisto Island, South Carolina arriving shortly before civil twilight. A short stroll through the coastal marshland and a few hammocks and the path opened up to the Atlantic Ocean and a beach lined with these desolate trees down the expanse of the beach. With the cloud cover moving towards sunrise I was presented with one of the most intense sunrise scenarios I’ve seen in years.” Notice the composition, the lines, shapes, patterns and colors that make the image powerful.
Peyton’s camera is the Canon EOS 5D Markll with Canon’s EF17-40mm f/4L USM lens. ISO was set to 320, shutter speed a slow 2.5 sec at f/16. He used a Singh-Ray 3 Stop reverse Grad ND filter to help balance the natural light. There is an article on the Singh-Ray site featuring Peyton which can be viewed here.