Hey folks, I wasn't in the best frame of mind for photos this morning so it became more like a what not to do on a photo outing and if you can still come away with something half way decent you are doing ok. (Remember, it's what not to do, and I did them all!)
- Set off with no plan of what you intend to shoot.
- Take the bare minimum in terms of equipment, filters and polarisers just take up space and you won't need them.
- Leave yourself no time to get to where you wish to take photos.
- Walk the least distance possible but through bogs that only 50,000 horse power tractors can get through, if possible wear brand new Italian motorcycle boots, oh and clean jeans!
- Don't worry about checking what ISO you were using last time, it'll probably be a nice noise free 100 anyway.
- Take a haphazard, almost child like approach to crossing muddy puddles, with equipment depreciation these days you can always just get a brand new camera should it come off the tripod as you skip over the half lit puddles.
- Spend no time thinking about composition, you'll just over complicate things, is a straight horizon really that important?
This is the result, I'm amazed I managed to remember to take the lens cap off! I got away with being a little lax this time because I was familiar with the surroundings and the equipment. The timing of the shot is critical, shots 10 minutes either side of this one would be moved to deleted pretty much as soon as I got them on the computer. For anyone still following this was a HDR so the shutter varied from 5 secs to about 1/25. ISO was 100 (I do check this without thinking now, despite the above point 5) Keeping ISO's low is extra important when doing HDR stuff, f/16 and 16mm.
I'm adding another shot to this post as I think I prefer it to the HDR look, I'll probably change my mind back as soon as I post it!
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