Photo of the Month
There was a light drizzle falling when I woke, early this morning. Normally I might roll over and forget about the adventure for this morning but the forecast was for clearing skies and the radar backed it up so I headed out the door with coffee in hand.
Everything about this morning on Hunting Island was dark and ominous. Wet sand under foot after a heavy rain, I walked under a lowered ceiling of black clouds. This shrimper defied the threatening skies dragging against a strip of clear air on the horizon. With the shrimping industry fighting to stay alive I found myself empathetic for this mans risk taking and perseverance. I raced down the beach to get the boat lined up with the storm clouds for a balanced composition.
Eric Horan
Photo tip: matching the lighting conditions with the available subjects. No matter what the lighting conditions are, a lot of the time we can find something to shoot. Overcast skies can be good for portraits, whether it's people or animals; direct light is good for many kinds of shooting including backlit portraits or front-lit saturated images. And, like this morning on Hunting island, when we had dark cloud cover but also a clear sky on the horizon, I was handed this opportunity to make this dramatic silhouette. I was glad I got out of bed!
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