Quick! Grab this! Grab that! Rush out! Rush down! Slip here! Trip there! Drop your...
Greetings, fellow sentient beings!
Have you experienced the pre-dawn panic of the Sun coming out too soon and you not being ready and in place? It happens from time to time to those of us who make plans to shoot at Sunrise. Often, that means getting up when the alarm triggers and way before our brains are quite content with the dream content they have been processing. Well, that also depends on chance.
But such an alarm means one thing — no time thoughts and considerations, you must jump out of bed immediately, crash into the bathroom door, phase through it if you like, put some pants on while going out of it again and sweep some necessary equipment off the floor on your way out into the cold and damp of the early hours.
Then, sometimes, you get to the coast just in time, as if your calculations from the previous night have been correct. You don't know what exactly you planned for. Wait, you didn't plan for anything. Browse the scape, pick a spot, give it a try. That's how frames like the one below are born in my experience.
I call them "Control frames", as in the control variable. The better-than-nothing frames. The ones you start with before moving to a more conscious choice.
In truth, oftentimes the best landscapes come from the second, third, etc. visit to the same place. Prepared is better. Sometimes it comes after sitting at home and analyzing previous results. Like in this case, where I would have tried shifting just a little bit to the left and forward.
Anyway, these do exist in my life. A lot. Spontaneous as they are...
Camera Settings:
Aperture F 22; Shutter Speed 1/3 sec.; Light Sensitivity ISO 100; Focal Length 27 mm.
The "Shoot first, ask later" principle.
Yours,
Manol
