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We are up in Tennessee for a few days and went to the Ocoee River and shot a few images. Kinda fun, but tough. We have another day or so to try some more. Thanks for looking.
David

David Akoubian
www.bearwoodsphotography.com

"Time is a wonderful healer, but a really bad beautician" - Unknown

TN is an awesome state for parks. There is practically 1 at every exit on I-40. We stayed at the Natchez Trace State Park on our trip across the US.
Joby

David,

This is outdoor sporting at its adrenolin (sp?) peak! Your shots really capture high action level on the Ocoee. Let us see more!

Rich

Yowza - it's difficult enough to take photos with a regular glass in conditions like those, so that you were bending these shots - and still actually hitting target - leaves me well impressed.

-Trav

Thanks Joby, Rich and Trav for viewing and commenting. I had all three LBs out for these experimenting. I think my choice lens for these is the 3G now although all were a blast. On a bunch of them (you can tell from the blur and motion) I used a 6 stop neutral density filter. The effect was 2 fold, I did not necessarily want to see the faces but also wanted to get motion to emphasize the action. Today I am going to drive back by and do some more experimenting. Thanks again,
David

David Akoubian
www.bearwoodsphotography.com

"Time is a wonderful healer, but a really bad beautician" - Unknown

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David Akoubian
www.bearwoodsphotography.com

"Time is a wonderful healer, but a really bad beautician" - Unknown

Interesting choice with the ND filter - might have to grab myself one. I take it the day was quite sunny then? The filter would have controlled the highlights nicely - certainly all of these are well controlled - while increasing exposure times, making the in-focus bits.. Bah, I'm dribbling now ;-)

Neat shots!

-Trav

Hey Trav,
Actually it was cloudy and drizzling a little at times. All of these were hand held so one thing I am thinking of doing is setting up a tripod, prefocusing with the 3G and shooting when the kayaker comes in. The exposures with the ND filter were around 1/30th to 1/80th of a second. Without the filter was almost 1/2000th of a second. It will be fun to experiment some more today. Thanks again.
David

David Akoubian
www.bearwoodsphotography.com

"Time is a wonderful healer, but a really bad beautician" - Unknown

David, these are really cool, #1 reminds me of my middle sons senior trip when they went white water rafting, the picture still sits on his dresser. I definitely would rather be capturing the actions than being in the middle of it.

Shurla

I think you did a really nice job with a really tough subject!

David L. Morel
www.davidmorelphoto.com

Nice action shots, captures the essence of the sport!

David,

As soon as I saw there were nine images, I said 'let's take another look'. Glad you shared some more of these with us. Love both the action and color in #5.

Rich

very exciting series, love the colors

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Glen Copeland
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Great series. You have captures the action very well, and the colors are great. Hard to pick a favorite this time.

Unni

Dynamic images. I'm particularly drawn to #1.

Thanks again all for viewing and commenting, yesterday was a stormy bust. I did get a few but nothing outstanding. It is only a 2 1/2 hour drive so I may go up on a sunny day and try again.
David

David Akoubian
www.bearwoodsphotography.com

"Time is a wonderful healer, but a really bad beautician" - Unknown

I like them all a lot, #1 is really my favorite as it really shows the chaos of the sport well. Actually, so does #8, it kind of looks like he's on the verge of losing it.

David,
#1 and 2 are my favorites, but they all feel like an adrenaline rush just looking at them. Great subject matter.
Cindy