Kite Buggying

I understand the importance of knowing your camera inside out and how making your own luck by planning and preparing for a composition can capture a moment as if it happened all by chance. I would like to tell the story of how this photograph was conceived, but unfortunately I cannot. This shot was a result of pure luck and a limited understanding of how to operate my new Canon DSLR! Of course, I was drawn to the scene by the dramatic sky and how the sun illuminated the kites when it broke through, but it wasn’t until I viewed the image on the computer did I realise what I had captured. It was the Lowry esque figures in the distance that made the photo for me and the longer I looked at the image the more silhouettes of people and animals could be seen. The image isn't technically perfect, the camera was set to take .JPEGs on automatic mode, the resulting image is more grainy than it needed to be and the kites aren't pin sharp.

 

Despite technical quality of the image, it has been one of the most successful pictures I have taken. I personally believe that I'm now a much better photographer than when I took this photograph, but it haunts me that if I knew then what a know now, it could have been so much better!

 

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