Sub-Title: If it doesn’t work out, go back and repeat…
Sometimes images turn out great because the subject is stunning, or you get your settings just right, or you’re simply in the right place at the right time. Other times you don’t get what you’re after, and you have two choices: Forget about it, or go the extra effort to go back and do it again.
At the end of our Brisbane Photowalk with Trey Ratcliff, a couple of weeks ago, we watched the “Santos City of Lights” display. Positioned across the river, we were ready to photograph the show in usual wide-angle fashion, skyline, lasers from rooftops etc. A few minutes into the show, three performers on large swinging poles emerged through a wall of water, like creatures out of a sci-fi movie. I did not expect this, nor was I equipped to photograph it.
This being at least 30 m or so away, I knew I had to go home, get the big guns out and come back to shoot it again. So I did last night, and with a 400mm at f2.8, the “water creature” was now within reach…
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