Re: Visualization and Planning – Dan’s (gdanmitchell) POV
If you \"knew\" everything you could know about a place in advance you would still not know many of the most important things until you showed up and looked around. Al your research can do is increase the odds.
I also learn places very well, look over maps, think about the direction of the sun and moon, try to understand seasons. And more often than not I discover photographs while I am on the scene that I had not anticipated, or I only really understand how to \"see\" the thing while it is in front of me.
Dan
jsuro wrote: Mark Metternich wrote:
Great shot man!
I love to be prepared as much as possible. My favorite way to shoot is to spend a lot of time with my subject matter. White pocket is one example. I have been there a total of 30+ days, and although I have gotten some great shots from there, it was not until the last time I went I really felt like I could say \"I know how to shoot this place\" (for my style). But of course having said that, improvising, trying stuff totally out of the box and necessarily reacting to the conditions makes some of our best work.
Thanks Mark. I too do a lot of preparation, And, shooting LF I don\'t have the luxury of looking at the screen on the back of the camera. I have to make it work from the get go. Plus the image is upside down and backwards left to right. You do get used to that but it is still weird. I do all the Google Earth stuff and send the GPS stuff to my car and phone. That helps, but it\'s not enough. Doesn\'t give you weather. You need to know more. And I do, sort of. I used to fly airplanes and the helps because I can pinpoint weather, that\'s a big key.
Thanks again!
Jose
May 19, 2013 at 10:45 PM
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