Andrzej Kocot
Dream A Little Dream of Me
Photographing is an adventure for me, an endless passion and crazy pleasure of being in extraordinary places at an extraordinary time.
These impressions remain with me forever when I look at the pictures.
Often, my outdoors sesion is a spontaneous action when I notice something intriguing.
Our journeys are often mostly the same routes, but at different times of the day, night, year…. I always take my backpack and tripod so that I can stop and do an outdoor session - the equipment must be properly set up and charged.
You have to foresee, that is a plan the scenes and the use of focal lengths, the angle of incidence of light, the composition of the composition ... - imagine the photos I want to take.
My wife always tells me why I am taking it (more often the equipment is only transported), and I say a landscape photographer must be prepared - after all, I am carrying it.
When planning a trip, I choose more or less hours of the route on which there may be an interesting phenomenon at a given time (e.g. meteograms say that there will be fog, or I know that there will be a full moon, or that there will be no fog and there will be clear skies, maybe it is worth taking a tracker, etc., which they have some potential places with an interesting landscape - if there are suitable favorable conditions - it is known that it is not always successful, but I give myself a chance.
Sometimes I have cases like this day. Potentially, I planned a Full Moon over the Bobolice castle, but I couldn't take such a picture because I couldn't match the moon with the castle in one frame and we were coming back when I saw this phenomenon - you just had to feel the moment - make a decision and stop at the side of the road roads in fog and darkness - it's a bit deaf - but don't worry, I'm the one hunting.
During such spontaneous photography you have to act quickly - I have at most several dozen minutes to get it right, so the setting sequences must be mastered to perfection and you have to think quickly, react when seeing the changing situation.
I always take a dozen or so photos on different settings, and then to be able to choose the best photo in my opinion, i.e. the one that fully reflects the atmosphere and mood of that moment.
Having photos (some of them are obviously less successful) sometimes takes time to get the right colors in post-production.
This is another photo from this open air
This is the real scene I captured.
Planning the scene and waiting for the right conditions is the base of my photography. I show the world as it is at the moment without any changes. My post-production is just about extracting the light, very often I do not change the framing because I try to compose photos with an idea and carefully. It forces me to approach each photo carefully.
Dream A Little Dream of Me
Photographing is an adventure for me, an endless passion and crazy pleasure of being in extraordinary places at an extraordinary time.
These impressions remain with me forever when I look at the pictures.
Often, my outdoors sesion is a spontaneous action when I notice something intriguing.
Our journeys are often mostly the same routes, but at different times of the day, night, year…. I always take my backpack and tripod so that I can stop and do an outdoor session - the equipment must be properly set up and charged.
You have to foresee, that is a plan the scenes and the use of focal lengths, the angle of incidence of light, the composition of the composition ... - imagine the photos I want to take.
My wife always tells me why I am taking it (more often the equipment is only transported), and I say a landscape photographer must be prepared - after all, I am carrying it.
When planning a trip, I choose more or less hours of the route on which there may be an interesting phenomenon at a given time (e.g. meteograms say that there will be fog, or I know that there will be a full moon, or that there will be no fog and there will be clear skies, maybe it is worth taking a tracker, etc., which they have some potential places with an interesting landscape - if there are suitable favorable conditions - it is known that it is not always successful, but I give myself a chance.
Sometimes I have cases like this day. Potentially, I planned a Full Moon over the Bobolice castle, but I couldn't take such a picture because I couldn't match the moon with the castle in one frame and we were coming back when I saw this phenomenon - you just had to feel the moment - make a decision and stop at the side of the road roads in fog and darkness - it's a bit deaf - but don't worry, I'm the one hunting.
During such spontaneous photography you have to act quickly - I have at most several dozen minutes to get it right, so the setting sequences must be mastered to perfection and you have to think quickly, react when seeing the changing situation.
I always take a dozen or so photos on different settings, and then to be able to choose the best photo in my opinion, i.e. the one that fully reflects the atmosphere and mood of that moment.
Having photos (some of them are obviously less successful) sometimes takes time to get the right colors in post-production.
This is another photo from this open air
This is the real scene I captured.
Planning the scene and waiting for the right conditions is the base of my photography. I show the world as it is at the moment without any changes. My post-production is just about extracting the light, very often I do not change the framing because I try to compose photos with an idea and carefully. It forces me to approach each photo carefully.