Blea Tarn Blues
The first real "Landscape location" from my recent holiday and I blew it, (at least in my estimation.)
You see, when I got to the Tarn at 5.30 am, everything was as dull as dull can be. It was still, but oh so lifeless. I waited around till 7.15 when the reflections started to go but it was still just as dull, then I left, having taken just one or two half hearted attempts at photographs.
It was the following day that the light went on in my head that said, "Low contrast black and white, plus polariser....IDEAL conditions!"
Does anyone else have these mental blanks (or senior moments) like this, or is it just me?
This is one of the few I shot as colour and just managed to process to be closer to what I would have taken if I'd had that thought bubble in time! I would have composed differently though and used my polariser.
I haven't stopped kicking myself after all the effort of getting there so early. The problem was, I went with a completely different expectation and intention in mind and it had been the autumn since my last landscape foray, and I just wasn't back in the right mental gear!
Blea Tarn Blues
The first real "Landscape location" from my recent holiday and I blew it, (at least in my estimation.)
You see, when I got to the Tarn at 5.30 am, everything was as dull as dull can be. It was still, but oh so lifeless. I waited around till 7.15 when the reflections started to go but it was still just as dull, then I left, having taken just one or two half hearted attempts at photographs.
It was the following day that the light went on in my head that said, "Low contrast black and white, plus polariser....IDEAL conditions!"
Does anyone else have these mental blanks (or senior moments) like this, or is it just me?
This is one of the few I shot as colour and just managed to process to be closer to what I would have taken if I'd had that thought bubble in time! I would have composed differently though and used my polariser.
I haven't stopped kicking myself after all the effort of getting there so early. The problem was, I went with a completely different expectation and intention in mind and it had been the autumn since my last landscape foray, and I just wasn't back in the right mental gear!