The difference between photography and painting

 Yesterday was a beautiful day visit the happening of  Tall Ship Race 2013 in Helsinki. It was mostly sunny with enough clouds to give the sky a little variation. I set out with the awareness that it was going to be challenging to get any clean shots of the ships and most of them had all ready arrived at the time I'd get there. There was going to be so many ships around the harbor, palced close to each other, a lot of people obscuring the view from shore but mainly because of all the enormous port cranes around the Western Harbor of Helsinki.

The happening was all in all enjoyable, good food and well organized except from the point of view of a photographer...food tents, speaker towers, trash cans, portable toilet boots and other stuff stuff all over the place and too close to the bigger boats so there was always something in the way to get shots from the side.

So I decided to focus more on details and overviews instead. That turned out to be a very good decision as I got a good deal of nice details and these two pictures to illustrate the point of this blog post.     

A woman painting a very nice picture of two boats. When painting you are free to leave out things like crossing ropes, parts of boats in the way and other disturbing objects. It turned out it was impossible to get those two boats in a picture without things crossing over from one side or another.  

Shot with EOS Mark II, EF-70-200 f4

Shot with EOS M, 22mm

But after walking a little bit more, I found I could get a clear shot  these two boats. They are not the same and there was not that clear water to include in the frame.