When I went for my walk yesterday, it was brilliantly clear with blue skies and bright sunshine. The first thing I noticed were the sparkles of sunshine on the water. I thought about this and realized that it was because there was only a light breeze and so there were waves but they were small. And the sun was high in the sky. That's what you need to get sparkles on the water, it seems. HOWEVER, when I tried this composition, even though the sparkles on the water were really obvious they don't begin to show up in a wide angle view!
So I zoomed in on the scene and even if you enlarge these photographs, the sparkles are still not obvious. I guess it is the actual flashing of the sunlight off the waves that makes the sparkles more obvious. And without the flickering which you won't get in a still photograph, the sparkles are not obvious.
In desperation I tried taking a few frames where the sparkles on the water are out of focus, and now they appear as much larger bright round circles So the sparkles are now more obvious. BUT. This isn't really a photograph! Duh! Oh well... Sometimes photographic ideas just don't pan out.
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