Tips for trip next week
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Next week this time I will be embarking on 5 days of fishing up in the rust belt of the great lakes. At this point I am probably more excited about snapping photos than crushing fish (well…almost)
As usual…anticipation is 90% of life and right now I have visions of cover quality pictures, vivid colors and creative composition. I am sure upon my return my memory cards will be filled with nothing more than grainy, dull photos that look like they were taken by some suburban stay at home mom.
So…with the understanding that the trees will be devoid of colorful leaves, the weather will more than likely be gray and overcast, and precipitation is almost as certain as the sun coming up tomorrow…what tips or things should I keep on the forefront as I release the shutter a couple hundred times next week?
Tim, there’s a timely article in November issue of Outdoor Photographer on 6 tips for big impact scenics. Thought these were simple and useful. See what you think.
http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/shooting/pro-tips-for-better-photography.html
Most important, have fun and enjoy the process.
If it’s cold and grey try to make that part of your pictures, photos don’t have to be sunny & blue to be good.
As a basic rule though, don’t have too much sky in the pictures if it’s really bleak.
I like to shoot a fishing trip as an adventure and capture the conditions as well as the landscape.
And food shots are important when posting!
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
What David said. if grey wet uninteresting tell the story.
You know that pro Bass Tourney I just did?
I didnt think there was much potential in them due to all the corporate branding, despite that I still do them. What little potential I thought existed evaporated the day I started the “Why do we do this” thread.Cold, miserable, rain, high ISOs, bleak skies, some noise in the images, very limited “artistic” opportunity, yada,yada. If not for the fatc it was an event on “my” scales of measurement most (read 90%) would have met the trash bin.
Within 3 days of shooting and posting the gallery for the particpants to visit, I’ve had an expression of interest from an AD in buying some and more importantly a successful Outdoor Writer with credits in most of the biggest publications in NA emailed me asking if Id work on commission or collaboration for his articles as he doesnt do the photogrpahy himself (he does but he realises its not good enough).
That alone is worth its weight in gold as his articles will get my name in fornt of ADs who right now probably wouldnt give me the time of day.Thats more than Ive gotten from the hundreds/thousands of technically better, more vivid, more eye catching photos ive got.
As a general rule beyond what DA suggested.
Slow the camera down.
Slow ISOs and low SSs help with colours, saturation etc.Sounds like you’re going to be in the perfect condition to shoot Black and White.
I went on a trip last weekend and only brought my holga 135 BC loaded with 400 ASA B&W film. Of course is was nothing but blue bird skies with temps in the high 80s. BW wasn’t the best choice but I wanted to focus on fishing, not shooting, and thats what I had loaded in both my holgas.
For my conditions, color would have been the best choice, but for you, it sounds like BW is the way to go. Give it a shot, shoot raw and have the option for both.http://society6.com/grainfarmer Fly Fishing and Landscape open edition Photography prints.
http://grainfarmer.vsco.co/ iPhone photos
http://instagram.com/chad_simcox InstagramWhat David said. if grey wet uninteresting tell the story.
You know that pro Bass Tourney I just did?
I didnt think there was much potential in them due to all the corporate branding, despite that I still do them. What little potential I thought existed evaporated the day I started the “Why do we do this” thread.Cold, miserable, rain, high ISOs, bleak skies, some noise in the images, very limited “artistic” opportunity, yada,yada. If not for the fatc it was an event on “my” scales of measurement most (read 90%) would have met the trash bin.
Within 3 days of shooting and posting the gallery for the particpants to visit, I’ve had an expression of interest from an AD in buying some and more importantly a successful Outdoor Writer with credits in most of the biggest publications in NA emailed me asking if Id work on commission or collaboration for his articles as he doesnt do the photogrpahy himself (he does but he realises its not good enough).
That alone is worth its weight in gold as his articles will get my name in fornt of ADs who right now probably wouldnt give me the time of day.Thats more than Ive gotten from the hundreds/thousands of technically better, more vivid, more eye catching photos ive got.
As a general rule beyond what DA suggested.
Slow the camera down.
Slow ISOs and low SSs help with colours, saturation etc.Hell yeah John!
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