Behind the scenes… sort of 🙂
This is my typical routine for a sunrise shot..
*Check weather reports ✓
*Check cloud radar ✓
*Check tidal chart ✓
*Check sunrise time and direction✓
*Get equipment ready ✓
*Clean and test equipment ✓
*Get films out of fridge ✓
*Get to bed way too early ✓
*Get up 3am ✓
*Coffee ✓
*Double check all gear ✓
*Load gear into car ✓
*More coffee if eyes still won’t open ✓
*Drive to distant location ✓
*Pay parking meter (bastards, it’s 5am and I’m the only car) ✓
*Scout shooting position and drag gear to it ✓
*Set up gear, check functionality ✓
*Compose shot ✓
*Wait for just the right light ✓
*Wait for just the right light ✓
*Wait for just the right light ✓
*Wait for just the right light ✓
*Drink bottle of water, eat apple ✓
*Wait for just the right light ✓
*Wait for just the right light ✓
*Wait for just the right light ✓
*Sunrise is a complete dud, pack up and go home without a shot ✓
Still, was nice to be out in the early morning instead of being nice and warm in bed….. and if you believe that, maybe you’d be interested in a bridge that I’m selling…..
Samuel Johnson once said… Â Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Bring me that man’s head on a platter!!
Have a nice day, folks 🙂
Yet another dud sunrise.
2 Comments
You forgot to mention the numerous times you message me during the ‘waiting for the right light’ stage to tell inform me that it is a dud…and that it’s still a dud…and that you’re giving it ten more minutes….and that you’re on your way home because it was a non-event.
But then there are those glorious times when I get sent a sneak peak of something special, when it IS the most perfect light…and then I become envious of the moment you are witnessing; that breathtaking moment of first light, the coming to life of a new day…. Of which you capture so stunningly and brilliantly that we all get to share in the wonder of that moment.
Yes, thanks Tam, but I didn’t want to go on ad-nauseam 😀