I have now been through the photographs I made last night and a few things need to be said. The first is that they were not that good. This is not a bad thing as you tend to learn more things from failures than success. Indeed the road to success is usually built on the broken bodies of your failures. So why were the photographs failures? Well, the first things was that I wasn't clear what I wanted to do.
I set out to record the snow and the strange night light caused by an exotic mix of snow and neon lights. Halfway through this I decide to try out some ideas that I had about painting with light. The idea was to illuminate one area of the photograph with flash whilst leaving the rest to burn in by a very long exposure. Now this may have worked if it hadn't been for the excessive light caused by the snow. Just to give you an idea of the amount of light around I was able to shoot at f8 for as little as 4 seconds with an ISO of 200. This was in the middle of the night in the middle of a park with no lighting!
The second was the weather. This might seem a strange thing to say but I forgot it was snowing! It wasn't a problem when I shot with the snow on my back as I didn't get any snow on the lens. However, when I shot into the snow well guess what - I got snow on my lens - Dohh! I didn't notice this until I got home.
The final thing was the otter. As soon as I had my encounter I sort of lost interest in photography and so my photographs started to show this. So what to make of this? Well, it was a very positive experience in the sense that I learnt a great deal about what I want to do. I also learnt that I need to be more single minded and plan what I want to achieve and then go for it. I just hope I don't encounter another otter as this will blow all my plans out of the water (if you don't mind the pun!)
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