Patience

You are taught growing up that patience is a virtue. Some people have it some people don't. I am generally one of those who don't, unless you are talking about photography.

In photography you need patience for several reasons. In some cases it is needed to grow your business. Growth does not happen over night it takes a while to get the ball rolling and to get the "word" out, which is where I am at right now. I am being patient as my website, Facebook page, portfolio etc grow. I know the business side will come, eventually. All it takes is patience.

In actual photography you sometimes have to employ patience as well. Once in a while, the light might not be the way you want it or the scene is changing. I have waited quite a long time to get the shot I pictured in my mind in the past.

In Disney's Epcot Center I took a daytime shot in the United Kingdom Pavilion with no one in the shot. As you can imagine, I waited quite a long time to for that to happen.

On our first trip to the Florida Keys in 2014 we stopped to watch the sunset at a place named Anne's Beach. As the sun was going down we found the perfect spot but there were people walking close to and around one of the focal points, a tree that was silhouetted by the sunset. Luckily I had the patience to wait them out and I ended up with a beautiful image. That took some patience as the sunset changes minute by minute and disappears quicker than you think.

We took a trip in the winter of 2015 to the Vermont Ice Castles at Stratton Mountain. What a neat place! We walked though this hallway made of icicles and I thought it would make a pretty interesting picture. It was a main thoroughfare in the exhibit and I ended up waiting around an hour to get a shot with the hallway completely empty but it was worth it.

I have also had to be patient in my learning of the DSLR cameras. With experience comes knowledge but I wanted to get good shots instantly. Well that didn't happen. After I bought my first camera I took it everywhere and took as many pictures as I could but I was not getting the images I "pictured". I had to utilize some patience to get better. The more you shoot and learn, the better you will become. I still take my camera everywhere and try to take pictures as much as possible.

So, in the end, patience is really a virtue and a tool.You need patience in life in general but also must employ it in photography as well.

See you next week.

E

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