Each year, we take a family trip to a lake in the Catskill Mountains (New York) to stay with my wife’s cousin. Aside from the great family get together that it always is, I have been taking my camera along to shoot during the innumerable boat rides with tubes, water skis and wake boards. When the weather is nice, this is a non-stop event.
I have been working over the years on how to capture the action – and the variables are many. Light can change constantly between clouds moving and shadows from the hills. The boat is bouncing and the subjects can be whipping across the back of the boat – or popping up and down depending on the particular activity. Putting the technique aside of capturing a skier jumping a wave at 20 MPH with a 300mm lens while you are trying to brace yourself on a bouncing boat, what I tried to bring into the exercise this year was capturing context with the shots.
