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Boat Parade

Speaking of boats... I don't believe there is a more humbling experience as a photographer than trying to photograph a Christmas Boat Parade ;)

 

We sat on some lawnchairs on the Wharf's floating dock at Stargazer's stern.

(The Wharf's dock is really quite stable for a floating dock, by the way.)

I couldn't being myself to accept 3200 ISO + on the shots but that seemed to be the sweet spot for reducing motion blur. They were clipping along pretty good.

 

Here, I used a boot flash and some zoom -- some cropping, some contrast addition to try to reconstruct what my eyes observed. The other 50 shots, all trash! :)

 

Photography aside, the lighted boat parade was an awesome experience. We made some hot chocolate for the kids and had a grand ol' time!

 

Thank you Brody for telling me about this!

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Uploaded on December 12, 2011
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