{"id":949,"date":"2011-06-18T18:26:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T07:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=949"},"modified":"2013-02-03T21:19:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T10:19:04","slug":"landscape-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Landscape shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blustery wet day was scheduled for our class’s photoshoot down at the Breakwater in Warrnambool. Wet miserable days are not a natural fit for going outside, but I’d have to say that I had a heap of fun.<\/p>\n

I think having the gear around took the concentration off myself, so that instead of worrying that fingers were losing circulation, I was more worried about keeping the seaspray away from my D300s. And instead of worrying about my head getting wet, I was worried about rain getting on my D300s. And instead of worrying about hypothermia, I was worried about using the last of my bodyheat to keep the battery of my D300s warm enough to keep shooting.<\/p>\n

Paranoia comes from a lifetime of destryoing cameras by dropping them in the ocean, leaving them on the sandy beachtowel, and other such unrecoverable abuses. The D300s bears my deathgrip.<\/p>\n

One thing I especially appreciated was having half a dozen other shooters there with gear so that I didn’t quite feel the photodork. Other than raindrops on the lensfilter, and smears from me trying to clean the raindrops off the lensfilter, I got a few decent shots. I think. I used Shutter priority and slowed the speed down through the meter until the aperture got down to around f22. Tripod and cable release of course.<\/p>\n