Freeze Frame

Wave Crash Against Pewetole Background

Taking advantage of some larger than normal waves I slipped the camera into burst mode, rolled up the pants, and got a little wet. Burst mode on my G3 isn't anything to brag about (maybe 5 shots a second) but things do get interesting if I choose to use the electric shutter. Then it can rattle off 20 shots a second! Of course the downside to this is that the shots are 4 megapixels as opposed to the 16 available in total, and the shots are stored in JPEG form only. Newer models don't have this problem. The other problem with burst shooting with my G3 is the tiny buffer the camera has; once it's filled I need to wait for it to write to the card. So there's a bit of a learning curve involved in figuring out the timing of waves and and how much time of actual shooting I actually get. Then the fun of getting all these burst shots into Aperture and looking through them to weed out the good ones can be tedious. Is this wave break better than this wave break? It gets to a point where if you've seen one wave break against a rock you've seen them all. I generally take a couple days to look over possible keepers and try to focus on compositional elements. With this shot I liked the wave line that starts at the bottom left corner and can be traced to the right edge of the frame, the spray from the break, and the light against the rock.