a few older pics. for the water people like me.

[bribrius]

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I think I took these with my cellphone, could have been the point and shoot though?????????
I have some ocean too, ill see if I can find them...

 

[Parker219]

Maybe try the "Just For Fun" section of the forum for these pics? I am 49% just kidding.

I'd say photo 5 has a shot of being good.

 

[bribrius]

Maybe try the "Just For Fun" section of the forum for these pics? I am 49% just kidding.

I'd say photo 5 has a shot of being good.

oh geez. I wasn't concerned with photography on these I could have given a ****. Hammering through the lake it was the least of my thoughts. lol no cc needed either I don't care on these.
probably should be in the for fun section.
mod can feel free to put in just for fun section if they want.

 

[bribrius]

wow. just looking at these. its a good thing I didn't have the 7100 for these im not sure how well the tripod would balance in the boat and then the iso would have to be high.

 

[Braineack]

I like #7.

 

[TWright33]

I like #7.

Beautifully exposed.

Nailed composition.

What's not to love?

 

[bribrius]

I like #7.

Beautifully exposed.

Nailed composition.

What's not to love?

the appreciation of 7 isn't in technical but the task. Anyone that puts boats on and off trailers in the night knows why 7 is something....
overcast and dark enough, just finding the dock and not running the boat up onto the land or slip is a feat in itself. if you aren't real familiar with where you are it becomes a search looking for the slip and whatever other obstacles..... (ive put a boat up a slip before not seeing it in time)
I have small spotlights on the other boat. This one is a challenge at night for sure. Which I think is why I took these photos. First time I had this one out at night. Lake can be worse than ocean too if it is seasonal, all the markers come out part of the year. so you are going through "unmarked territory" in the dark trying not to hit anything. Couple lakes here are difficult to navigate. The lake above is one. But that is all part of the fun ive bottomed out more than a few times, lost my share of props, and the wife got air in one of these running over a rock formation a few years back (I almost flew over the windshield). So personal wise, I like these photos.
I will probably try to do better this year with this so people can see my fascination with running at night. (its gorgeous under the moon and stars)

 

[Derrel]

Might think about some better lights for the trailer, like a couple of battery-powered "light poles" placed on 4.5 foot tall PVC pipe that slip into female receptacles bolted to the rear of the trailer. With 4.5 foot height on your light poles, you can see the back of the trailer's corners really easy in the rearview, even over the back of the truck bed, no matter where the trailer's rear end is. My friends and I used to fish a LOT (like almost everyday...). You can MAKE these in like 20 minutes with some PVC pipe and a couple of small flashlights that just slip into to top of the open tubes and have a diffuser taped over the flashlight lens, to make a little "light bulb" thing. When you launch in the dark and take-out in the dark, having some light poles on the trailer is super-handy.Hop out, pop 'em into the receptacles on the back of the trailer, and flip on the flashlights. Done!

One of my buddies has fitted both sides of the trailer frame with a gorgeous waterproof set of LED side-lights, which illuminate the boat ramp and the adjoining dock very nicely, and helps passengers hop in and out very nicely.

 

[bribrius]

curiosity question. seeing how we have lost electronics before from the occasional rogue wave. how water proof is that 7100? would I even dare to bring that out on the ocean or the lake?

That is one of the reasons I opted for that camera. I heard it wouldn't hurt it to get wet.

 

[bribrius]

Might think about some better lights for the trailer, like a couple of battery-powered "light poles" placed on 4.5 foot tall PVC pipe that slip into female receptacles bolted to the rear of the trailer. With 4.5 foot height on your light poles, you can see the back of the trailer's corners really easy in the rearview, even over the back of the truck bed, no matter where the trailer's rear end is. My friends and I used to fish a LOT (like almost everyday...). You can MAKE these in like 20 minutes with some PVC pipe and a couple of small flashlights that just slip into to top of the open tubes and have a diffuser taped over the flashlight lens, to make a little "light bulb" thing. When you launch in the dark and take-out in the dark, having some light poles on the trailer is super-handy.Hop out, pop 'em into the receptacles on the back of the trailer, and flip on the flashlights. Done!

One of my buddies has fitted both sides of the trailer frame with a gorgeous waterproof set of LED side-lights, which illuminate the boat ramp and the adjoining dock very nicely, and helps passengers hop in and out very nicely.

That's actually something. Right now I unplug the trailers completely (ive gone through sets of trailer lights even the "waterproof ones) before I even put it in the water. if I have the truck I lower the tailgate and turn on the bedlight (helps a little not much). worse case scenario I have a handheld flood I throw on the toolbox pointed at the launch (which I almost never remember to take with me). with the suv, im screwed, its got nothing. I used to just leave it in reverse and throw on the ebrake for the back uplights so I could see to run the boats up on the trailers but I started getting nervous about that...:mrgreen:
I had this vision of the ebrake not holding or someone getting in and accidently hitting the gas and the vehicle going off the slip and C-ya. lol