Consolation Shots

[Jon]

Just wondering, if you go out with a particular type of shot in mind and cant get it, do you try for a consolation shot? This was mine tonight

Cant attach the file though :)

[Black Pearl]

Kind of. If I know the area I'll go out with a vision in the back of my mind of the sort of image I'm after.

I'm not sure I'm dedicated or focused enough to know if the shots I bring back are 'the ones' or 'consolation' shots. It's different if shooting for someone else as their will be a tight brief but for me I'm happy to go with the flow and change the vision as I go a along.

Crackin' shot by the way - what/where is it?

[Heather]

i might go out with a rough idea in mind but i try to be flexible enough to go with the flow if for some reason its unachievable.

i have found doing this 366 thing that i will go out with an idea for my "picture of the day" and end up coming back with a much better idea that jumped out at me during my time out.

have to agree with BP about your shot though ... its beautiful !

[Jon]

Thanks, I tend to head to an area, rather than know what shots I want to take if that makes more sense.

Last night I'd gone to an abandoned reservoir to see if anything caught my eye, but when I got there I realised there was a fair chance I'd never get out once I got in, so rather than go home with nothing I went to the Infinity Bridge at Stockton on Tees. I seem to have a lot of shots of it, and of the Tees Barrage near it (its about 15 minutes from me on a pushbike) :-)

Edited September 30, 2012 by festcu

[geodar]

only one the odd occasion do i go out with specific idea in my head, most of the time it is just a 'i'll see what i end up with' venture.

things like slow water shots / sunrise or night time shots of the bridges over the tyne i have a think about as i have to carry the tripod, but like i say most of the time i just have a look when i'm there.

one of the harder thing to do is when you go to the same place often, i tend to go to st. mary's lighthouse, it is near and free parking before 8am so sunrise shots with the lighthouse is very popular in my back catalogue, but trying to shoot something a bit different is a challenge, a lot depends on where the tide is, how much cloud is above etc.

i have been out and about many times to somewhere new, around 150 mile round trip and come back with 10 photos, other times i pop into a local wood and come back with a full card, thats the life of a photographer i suppose .

geoff

[Guest Lee]

Whenever I go out I take a camera with me but I don't go out with an idea set in my mind; probably thats why I come home without using the camera!

[Denis]

Whenever I go out I take a camera with me but I don't go out with an idea set in my mind; probably thats why I come home without using the camera!

That is me all over!

I even take mine to work hoping for a good scene or something that takes my eye while out and about. I have taken it in every day this week... and have not taken a single shot. I even go out for long walks every weekend but tend to stay within a certain area but nothing doing the last few weeks. I think its a confidence thing with me, I'm so used to taking rubbish shots that I need more inspiration:)

[Leon]

just remember before the forum crash, a member (think Annie?) had a bad day said all were crap then won POTW!!......let other prople see what you think is crap, let them decide!

[Denis]

let other prople see what you think is crap, let them decide!

No, no noooooooo Mine really are crap, Lets see what this weekend brings!

[jeremy rundle]

Shows how the sky is so important in photographs.

Great shot and colours