Summer’s almost over so I thought it might be a good idea to shoot clouds on the middle of the day. No, I’m kidding, I never plan what I shoot. I just take my camera everywhere I go and shoot when I can. And to be honest, my camera stays in my bag 90% of the time, which is actually quite sad. Speaking of sad, this summer has been a little boring because we haven’t had the time to travel or do anything fun, usually we’d go on a vacation overseas or travel with family on different provinces but circumstances prevented us from doing so. However, we got some important things done this summer that we’re happy about and in no time hopefully, we’ll be traveling again.
Anyway, life’s been busy and so my consistency was nowhere to be found again. Haven’t done a post in 2 months and I’ve been feeling very uninspired lately. But I’m trying to get a momentum back, and so lo and behold my new photo set – “clouds”. Lol, like I said, I shoot when I can and with whatever. Nothing fancy, just a set of clouds I took in the middle of the day.
But seriously, clouds are amazing and are often overlooked when photographing. Clouds has always played an important role specially when it comes to landscape photography, and a perfectly timed set of clouds can make any dull landscape as gorgeous as it’ll ever be. I remember reading on a photography book of a landscape photographer (forgot the name, as I am bad with names) who once waited for several days, on the same spot, for the perfect cloud to compliment the landscape he was shooting. Now that’s dedication! Speaking of clouds complimenting landscapes, below are more of my photos! 😉
Do you know that one of the most famous photographs ever taken was of a simple landscape with a nice set of clouds, remember windows xp, anyone? Now looking at my modest photos one can easily think that photographing clouds is easy, but it’s often not. Photographing clouds can create extreme exposure problems as they intend to be much brighter than the foreground. And even if you know how to play with exposures (by using filters or using zone system) it is not guaranteed that you’ll get the “perfect” cloud you are looking for on the day you are shooting. Just like anything with photography, photographing the “perfect” cloud takes timing, technical knowledge, patience and luck.
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