Capture The Moment

Pro photographers have known for years the spellbinding ability to just capture a moment when they press the shutter at just the right millisecond. Occasionally such moments can be planned, and frequently they can’t. Occasionally they are just there, and you’ve got to snap it without thought for composition or lighting or any of the other elements everyone knows are critical for quality photography.

As an example, you can plan for a picture full of the energy of the wind when someone or a vehicle crosses the line of sight.

Or when you know something provoking is ready to occur, like the arriving of a baby, having a camera prepared for that first moment of life could lead to a dazzling picture. Such life moments can be caught if you’re prepared with your ability and talent and equipment.

That moment when just the right elements come together for surprising composition, is sometimes nothing that you could have planned or set up. Latterly my partner and I escaped and spent a weekend in the mountains where, one evening at dinner, we were seated on the porch of the dining room. Just as our salads were served, the sun moved from behind clouds and the brilliant metal roofs of mountain houses were illuminated across the meadow. Bright red and green and blue and gray roof colours flooded our senses as if a bucket-full of marbles had been tossed against the green and brown mountainside.

The sight was so full of vitality and potential that we could hardly talk with the vibrancy of it all.

That moment wasn’t planned. It just took place. Sometimes such experiences can be imagined before the circumstance. As an example, you know a crop moon will be an impressive sight, and you can make preparations for shooting it by being in the right spot at the right time. The unpredictable can be made simply controllable with a little forethought.

You can envisage what may be, before it truly occurs. Demonstrating patience may open doors for a selection of unusually composed pictures, especially if you want to attend on just the right natural light, or shade, or form or energy.

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