![]() Some photographers do not like this type of photo, saying they look unnatural. ![]() The above photo is one that will appear on his website to accompany and illustrate the Podcast. Simon Willis has recorded a Podcast with me talking about sea kayaking photography which should be published in the first week of December. ![]() If I had just set the camera to auto, the kayaker would have been a dark silhouette. I joined them together later using Photoshop. One was taken for the light in the foreground and the other was taken for the sunset. It is very much as I remember it but it is actually composed of 2 separate photos which were taken one after the other but with very different exposure settings. This is a nice photo of a summer sunset off Loch Roag in Lewis. In this case there is no suitable transit landmarks. I will have no way of knowing this unless I have calculated the speed and direction of the current before hand or if I have identified a more distant landmark behind my destination and the two move relative to one another (this is called using a transit). But if there is a tide carrying me north from the course line, my bearing to my destination will change to say 92 degrees. I now paddle on a heading of 89 degrees and I should get there. The horizon is pretty featureless so I can take a grid bearing off the map, convert it to a magnetic bearing and the course is 89 degrees between the two points. In this case I want to paddle to the channel to the south of Pabbay Beag from Stacanan Neideaclibh. I used to be a Luddite when it came to GPS units and it is fair to say that although I am a technophile, I was a late GPS adopter. However, fog, night or tide might make things more difficult. Most sea kayak navigation is done by identifying coastal features, checking on the map where you are in relation to them then paddling towards the one you want to get to.
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