 John Koepfer @PresentPleasures |
What would you do The other night I went to the shore in NJ to shot the sunset. It was very cloudy at first, but then it started to clear some and the sky became spectacular in every direction (north, south, east and west). I was shooting it all with two cameras and one tripod. I was wondering though if I should have just focused on one area, so I am asking BP members out of curiosity what they would do in that situation.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
John, good question. Me personally, I'd do some quick shots in each direction, as long as the composition was compelling. Often, I'll have a great sky looking south, for example, but nothing in the foreground. I'll still shoot it, but put more effort into finding a compelling foreground with a sky, in a different direction. You could always take just the sky photos, and save them in a "Sky" folder on your computer, in case you ever wish to do photo-editing to replace a dull sky.
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- Usman M. Bajwa Contact Usman M. Bajwa Usman M. Bajwa's Gallery |
In addition to what Ken suggested, if you had a tripod, you may also want to capture multiple images (portrait mode) and then try stitching it in post processing. I had something similar in May in Germany, but I was without a tripod, so couldn't do a panoramic shot as the light was pretty low! Usman.
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John Koepfer @PresentPleasures |
Ken and Usman, you both have ideas that I did not think of. Taking just the sky for later editing and shooting for a pano are both great ideas and going in to my note book for future reference. I did have a chance to edit two of the shots from this night, Sunset Clouds (east) and Fire In The Sky (west) and I do like the way they turned out, but I think I may have gotten something better if I just focused on one area (but that is so hard to do when you have multiple areas that are so nice).
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
John....get two cameras and two tripods...you'll have all options covered. :-)
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Joepet A. Macariola |
You can do it!!
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ecameronphotography.com - Errick L. Cameron  Contact Errick L. Cameron Errick L. Cameron's Gallery |
I would just have fun!!!
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John Koepfer @PresentPleasures |
Errick that is exactly what I ended up doing.
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