We need to learn how to use our solunar tables a little bit better. The estimation of when low tide was supposed to be was a bit off - by about six hours. There was still a considerable amount of water still in the sloughs. You can see a bit of the difference in water levels between low and mid high tide.
Greenshead Slough, low tide
Greenshead Slough, about half way to high tide
Well, we still photographed. You get up early in the morning, to out to where you are supposed to photograph, so you photograph. It’s why we’re here.
Island in the Bay
Greetings from the bridge over Greenshead Slough
(long shadows, golden light - keep reading)
Most landscape photographers tend to time their photographing around the edge of the day, both early morning and evening. The driving factor is to have light that strikes the land at an angle to create long shadows and to use the “warm” light that gives everything that golden hue. During the middle of the day, light comes from above and minimal shadows. That leaves the middle of the day free to scout locations (or write blog posts). We found such a location today that has promise. We determined it was an “afternoon” photographic location. The big question is when do we come back to catch the afternoon light? There’s an app for that. Brooks pulled out the android and found out we should be in position around 6:30 pm. We’ll go back and see if the software is right.
The software is pretty accurate. We got to our spot at the right time. We were able to get "good" light on the trees, the tarn was in the shade and the breeze was quieting down near the end of the day.
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