Smartphone technology has improved so much, that most smartphone cameras today have better resolution than the first top-of-the-line DSLR’s did in the beginning—but what most smartphones don’t have, including the iPhone, is the ability to control things like shutter speed and aperture values independently of each other.
The opening line of “Time” from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album; 10 words I repeat often when the world seems to conspire against my creative will. If I had a buck for every time a photographer at an iconic location said to me “Shame there aren’t any clouds” – well, I’d have about $70, but you get the point!
Time is precious, moments in the wilderness or in nature are priceless and people work hard to enjoy some solitude and tranquility. If you choose to spend some of this time outside making photographs, the weather and shooting conditions are important and it is very easy to measure your enjoyment of your free time by the quality of the images you make.
In this article I aim to demonstrate that even on days when there are no clouds or spectacular colour, with harsh light, mist, fog or even rain, that our lives can be filled with creativity and beauty.
Isle of Skye, Scotland – raining morning. I never make great landscape images when I don’t go out. Without rain, there is never a rainbow 🙂