Boathouse at first light

-Oy-

-Oy-

Bloke with a camera
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Lancashire
First light at The Duke of Portland Boathouse on Ullswater this morning. The Sun peeped over the fells and lit up the boathouse for about a minute!

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Trish said:
Love the photo @-Oy- I really like how you have got so many tones and details in despite the lowlight.
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Unless there was some way to manipulate the lighting/shading after the fact, it looks like a photo you would have to be there every day at the right time for months to catch that same lighting again.
 
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JustDave said:
Unless there was some way to manipulate the lighting/shading after the fact, it looks like a photo, you would have to be there every day at the right time for months to catch that same lighting again.
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Pro photographers do, sometimes. During his career in the Air Force, my oldest bro made a life-long friend of a guy was also in the Navy, but was loaned to the Army as a photographer, and spent 2 years in South Vietnam photographing civilian life and the environment and culture. About a half-dozen of his photos are very well known, and a couple of them won prizes.

He told my brother stories like the time he sat among a bunch of damp ferns for 3 or 4 pre-dawn hours, trying to stay alert while he waited for the very moment the sun broke over this one particular hill, so he could get at least a few good shots of some rice paddies. He wound up taking about 8 photos. One turned out perfect.
 
WOW, That sun was spotlighted on that wonderful 200' area of the Lake !
When I see that light line in the water I see the sun at the back of it. Amazing
Timing to be on the front side of that Sun light on the water too.
 
Thanks folks. Yes - some research about where and when the Sun would crest the hills. Some patience waiting for an hour or so beforehand. And a dollop of luck to be there in the right place ant the right time.

Also - there's a saying. The harder I work, the luckier I get :D
 

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