Risk and Reward
20th May 2022
Sometimes you go out to take a specific image in mind, you know the location well, you've researched the angles of the sun and the moon or stars with apps. Sometimes you go to a new place with an idea because you think will be good but you don't know the details and know you'll have to improvise a little and you are relying on being able to capture an image.
Part of the fun is going out and seeing new places, trying the photography and the experience of being there, you don't expect to take a portfolio image every time but you hope you will get something you like and hope you won't hit a complete brick wall.
This image is an example of taking a chance. I'd scoped out the church in the South Downs, I think I had seen some images that suggested potential. So I set off in the middle of the night under clear skies and arrived at this fantastic little church nestled in the downs, stars overhead, the cross fully illuminated, great I thought. The reality of taking the image I had in mind started to dawn as I tried to balance the nuclear lighting of the cross with the dark skies and starlight was impossible. I thought this was going to be a loss and figure out hos I could make the best of it, my artistic vision was disappearing into the night!
I focussed on dealing with the foreground and getting a set of images I could use for the church, and luckily as I completed this the lights switched off, leaving me with perfect dark skies to capture the arch of the milky way.
Sometimes you take a chance and it works out and personally this is one of my favourite night sky images that I have taken in a long time. This was definitely taking a risk on an unknown location but the reward is a stunning image of which I'm proud of taking the chance!
Part of the fun is going out and seeing new places, trying the photography and the experience of being there, you don't expect to take a portfolio image every time but you hope you will get something you like and hope you won't hit a complete brick wall.
This image is an example of taking a chance. I'd scoped out the church in the South Downs, I think I had seen some images that suggested potential. So I set off in the middle of the night under clear skies and arrived at this fantastic little church nestled in the downs, stars overhead, the cross fully illuminated, great I thought. The reality of taking the image I had in mind started to dawn as I tried to balance the nuclear lighting of the cross with the dark skies and starlight was impossible. I thought this was going to be a loss and figure out hos I could make the best of it, my artistic vision was disappearing into the night!
I focussed on dealing with the foreground and getting a set of images I could use for the church, and luckily as I completed this the lights switched off, leaving me with perfect dark skies to capture the arch of the milky way.
Sometimes you take a chance and it works out and personally this is one of my favourite night sky images that I have taken in a long time. This was definitely taking a risk on an unknown location but the reward is a stunning image of which I'm proud of taking the chance!