NJ Weekend August 28, 2007
Posted by tcbp in : Photography , add a commentI had certainly hoped I might do some shooting while I was in NJ this past weekend. I did, just not as much as I would have liked. I find myself constantly over-critical and negative of most things I do shoot and this past weekend was no exception. I was really unimpressed by the place I went Saturday with my friends. We were in Dingman’s Ferry, PA and the weather did not cooperate. We got there far too late in the day for good lighting and the sun just burst through the trees and created trouble spots all over the place. I really didn’t come away from there with anything I liked, not yet at least. I’m still looking at and trying different things with the photos but generally speaking after the first 30 seconds I know whether I’ll be doing anything with them any time soon.
I actually shot more that day when I got back to my grandmothers house, but even then I talked with her too long and the nice setting sun had mostly disappeared already too so I had very diffuse and cool lighting to work with, which I don’t mind for some things.
While it’s hard for me to decide if I really like them yet, I have some photos from Saturday at my grandmothers that I’ll at least hang on to for one thing or another. Three that I kept are below, although two are quite similar (the droplets on the leaves) and they’re really not that good. There was no real way to get a good angle or composition that I really liked with the droplets but I half knew that before I started. At least they look cool, I figure!
I had originally intended to head back to Rochester early Monday morning, but given the combination of my inability to wake up these days, a meeting I wanted to make it to at 1PM and the construction on 81 in PA, I decided to head out Sunday late afternoon. A car mount for the camera would be really nice sometimes!
