The Swimmer by skipt07

The Swimmer

Picasso painted some odd shaped people in different walks of life. Tonight we went to watch our granddaughter's last swim lesson when I saw this one instructor under the surface all distorted by the ripples of the water.
HA! Perfect Picasso! :)
April 8th, 2016  
great capture and abstract effect
April 8th, 2016  
Such a cool take! Fav!
April 8th, 2016  
You need to tag it,Skip! Ac-picass
April 8th, 2016  
Ac-picasso
April 8th, 2016  
Wow, it does have an artsy look to it. Good eye and a great capture.
April 8th, 2016  
Looks like a monster!
April 8th, 2016  
How cool is that
April 8th, 2016  
I like it much better in colour! More an octopus with blue eyes!
April 8th, 2016  
Like Maggiemae @maggiemae I like this much better in colour , and immediately thought of an octopus !! Beautiful tones and colours in the rippled water .
April 8th, 2016  
Very cool!
April 8th, 2016  
Strangely, I like both for different reasons. This one looks like a painting (as you intended)
April 8th, 2016  
Love this.
April 8th, 2016  
Creepy, in a good way!
April 8th, 2016  
ahhh...thanks for the explanation...couldn't work out what it was...
April 8th, 2016  
beautiful abstract feeling on this one
April 8th, 2016  
That looks awesome!
April 8th, 2016  
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Thank you all so much for your kind comments and favs! I am glad that you like it. I wasn't sure how it might be received. You have placed in on the PP which I am surprised and grateful! I learned something tonight and thought I'd pass it on to you dSLR owners. If you have a full frame camera it probably won't be of help. I have a crop camera and when shooting under low light situations I have used the no flash mode of my camera which is similar to program mode where the camera sets everything. The drawback is that my two Canon cameras in this mode will crank up the ISO to 6400 which creates a lot of noise which in many but not all images is very noticeable. Tonight I tried manual mode. I set the ISO to 1600 and was able to shoot at 1/180 of a second which nicely stopped the swimmers when they were jumping into the pool. I could have gone to 1/250 of a second, but it was a little dark. My f stop was f/5.6. A lot less noise and still getting a nice DoF and a decent shutter speed to stop action. Thanks again for your kind comments!
April 8th, 2016  
Wonderful shot, very effective at capturing the spirit of Picasso..
April 8th, 2016  
@skipt07 ...thanks for the info Skip...very handy to know...
April 8th, 2016  
Cool capture Skip!
April 9th, 2016  
Great eye! I love the inspiration behind this. I almost saw some dog ears in there as well!
April 9th, 2016  
Fabulous abstract
April 19th, 2016  
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