SHOOTING THE SHOOTER - FANAL FOREST TRIPS 3 AND 4
If the next image looks familiar, it should be. It was taken from the exact position that one of the square photographs from the last post was taken from. In fact, it wasn’t until I looked at the taken image in my LCD in the field to evaluate it did I realize that Ann was just outside my square field of view. Suspecting she might move left a bit, I made a couple of more images and . . . then she moved left, so I made this one after changing the format ratio to 2:3 in my camera.
After making the image, Ann asked me over for some image advice. She was using a longer lens than normal and focused on one of the branches. She was wondering if: (a) I thought the glow of the mosses on the top of the branch would show up in a photograph (I answered yes.); (b) would the ferns, especially the ones hanging down from the branch be clearly seen (Yes.); and (c) did I think the composition of the image was “stupid” (No.).
It was, in fact, a difficult morning to photograph even with the fog. The wind would suddenly kick up and, as you might imagine, the ferns and occasionally tree branches would start moving back and forth (see the ferns on the very left). You had to wait for the wind to die down, the ferns to stop shaking, and hope that the wind didn’t kick back up before your exposure was done. While not an exercise in futility, it does try your patience and sure does waste a lot of pixels.
Our next images comes from the next day, when we decided to take advantage of afternoon sunlight at the Fanal Forest (and the significantly larger number of people there). If patience was required for the windy day, it was doubly required on this day when you had to wait, and wait, for people to walk through your image (hoping someone else doesn’t shortly follow them . . . or a dog . . . or a cow). There was that one guy Ann and I wanted to throttle who walked into the middle of our view, and decided to light up a cigarette, standing there in asinine oblivion (or intention).
Anyway, at one point Ann wanted to make a shooting the shooter image of me making a photograph. (Like the hat? Simon gave it to me when we signed the contract on the bimobil! It’s become a favorite.).
I was, of course, taking a photograph of the most beautiful subject I could possibly find.
I can hear Ann gagging already. But I am being serious.
That’s it for this session. Hopefully, we’ll have more (and more interesting) images to come.