Pallada Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

I am returning to the Tacoma Tall Ships Festival. Details of the festival are given on my first post from here.
Pallada was the last ship to enter in the parade and also has the sailors up in the rigging like the Cuauhtemoc.(see previous posts). She is named for the Greek goddess Pallas Athena. She is owned by Dalryba, a conglomerate of fishing companies, and offers sail training to foreign marine-college cadets. Though her homeport is in Vladivostok, which is on the far eastern coast of Russia, Pallada voyages widely, and sails with a compliment of 143 cadets and a permanent crew of 56 officers, teachers, and professionals. With twenty-six sails and masts soaring 162 feet above the deck, Pallada combines traditional sail training with a modern maritime college curriculum.
I have put a close up on WS so you can see the sailors waving.

Rig: Full-rigged ship
Homeport: Vladivostok, Russia
Normal cruising waters: Worldwide
Sparred length: 356' 4"
Draft: 22' 4"
Beam: 45' 9"
Hull: Steel
Built: 1989: Gdansk, Poland
Crew: 56 Trainees-passengers: 143

danyy, sayzey, kebek, PJE, PixelTerror, Galmeida, huynt, supereira, perryhooter, carper has marked this note useful

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danyy (69393) 2005-08-22 11:33

Bonjour Kath,
un cadrage très parfait et de surperbes couleurs, particulièrement ce dégradé de bleus dans le ciel.
Uncomposition interessante avec la manière dont les marins se préparent à lâcher les voiles.
Ils donnent une excellente idée de la hauteur des mâts.
Compliments.
Daniel.

bigfoot (94) 2005-08-22 11:43

Very good composition and color, especial the men

sayzey (2358) 2005-08-22 12:01

Great framing Kath! Another great maritime capture! I like sailors we can see! There is something with the whites on this photo that unsettles me, perhaps its bordering on overexposure although I cant really tell, the least photo I looked at of yours made me think my eyes were decieving me too, its somethign I cant pick up why, and I dont know quite how to explain. Were you using RAW images here, or straight Jpegs, coudl it be something to do with saving to a losy format like jpeg?

Anyway I can appreciate the scene its very well captured, perhaps it is too detailed with all the lines, especially at the bottom, perhaps there is too much for my brain to process :P

t0mmm1 (5434) 2005-08-22 12:09

WOW Kath,
this is really biiiiiiiiiig ship. The waving people seems like the birds on the sails. Is really nice this big ship taken from really good angle.

DLM (6447) 2005-08-22 12:42

Hi Kath ,majestic image, Nicely framed,your POV is very good,well captured
Dave.

kebek (5434) 2005-08-22 14:02

Serwus Kath !
Very ellegant composition. "Pallada" is really huge and most charming. Clarity of photo is stunning as one can see waving sailors even without WS version.
This is excellent Work.
Thank You,
Mat

Graal (58688) 2005-08-22 15:27

Hi Kath,
beautiful silhuette of ship. Excellent colours and sharpness. I like it. Good note, too. Enjoy to me, ship built in Gdansk (Poland).
Rgs, Aleksander

toni_al (15476) 2005-08-22 18:10

Hi Kath
Très belle image et superbe bateau, j'aime ce cadrage serré qui montre bien les détails.
Well donne
Toni

pnphan (3900) 2005-08-22 18:42

hi Kath
very well capture of the ship image. good colors contrast and sharpness.

PJE (19483) 2005-08-22 22:32

When you post any photo you sure put alot of interesting info with your photos. This is very nice. I love the view and how nice its framed in. Great work.
We had the same kind of festival and not enough people turned out. Poor planning and poor weather. You caught this one on a great day. Nice bluw sky really makes this look gorgous.

PixelTerror (86797) 2005-08-23 4:10

Hi Kath,
AGain a nice one from this famous ship, here the angle and the use of the vertical framing as well as the colors are excellent, it seems to me it has been sharpened a tiny bit too much ?
Have a nice day,
Jean-Yves

danby1 (3689) 2005-08-23 5:01

hi kath, another impressive capture of these ships, nice lighting, and good composition, nothing much else i can add! ill visit again tomorrow!

Galmeida (12559) 2005-08-23 6:50

Hello Kath,
I like Sea and boats and this one is very beautiful one that you captured very well in a excelent angle of view and vertical perspective for composition. Excelent details, very good colors, fine handle of light and sharpness.

Very well seen and composed.
Good work.
Fernando

huynt (5077) 2005-08-23 10:13

Hi kath
Wow. a great nice boat. Very shaphern on the beautiful sky. Well done

sq10095 (107) 2005-08-23 11:11

That's impressive, great colors and detail. Nicely done again.
Martin

supereira (9576) 2005-08-23 15:49

Great ship.I like the composition and poin of view.Goods contrast between the ship and the sky.Good details.I like the colors,light,textures and sharpness.Well done!

hexagon (284) 2005-08-26 4:08

beautiful ship, great capture. I like to see all the sailors on the mast that look like bird on a phone pole

es841 (1854) 2005-09-03 17:15

Bonjour Kath,
Je constate que les adeptes du Nikon D70 font de splendides photos, parfaitement cadrées, pleine de détail et avec de superbe couleur (ce qui au début avec cet appareil est je trouve un des paramètres les plus difficile à maîtriser).
Bravo!
Luc.

perryhooter (2424) 2005-10-13 22:32

Hello Kath !

I missed this one . Tight cropping works well here. Very nice capture. Beautiful colors and interesting and useful note too.
Well done !
Robert

carper (65598) 2005-10-25 13:19

very nice one Kath
of your archive a very nice shot, good taken shot, very good composition, realy good job.
gr. jaap