Heading out on a warm and moody morning

Be warned a little rant below :)

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I shot early on morning at Woodmont beach, I was focusing on walking and getting in a few miles walk at the time as it was quite cloudy and gloomy and I wasn't expecting much color for the sunrise.

Goes to show you never can know with Mother Nature , I wasn't expecting much but some nice warm tones came out and I think catching this shot with the working boat heading out was my only shot I got that morning worth sharing.

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Random thought for today Not much effort if you just have one photo in a post

I saw a couple of comments this morning on a couple of photography posts to the effect of if its just one photo you haven't put much effort into the post and similar has been said on my posts at times so today I feel the need to say something.

If you are comparing taken a photo with a cell phone and just snapping a pic and sharing I could see how you think that but let me just take a minute to explain a little about the average amount of time that may go into a photo post such as this one.

Taking the photo

This was an early morning shot for example so I was up at about 4 AM, so I loaded my camera bag and tripod into the car and drove to the beach hoping for a nice sunrise, got to the Beach parked and walked to find a good spot to get some shots.

Once I find a good spot I setup the tripod and wait for the right shots to come along such as this boat passing by, I then proceed to take a few shots before during and after the sunset, and for me that means picking up the camera and moving back and forth along the beach.

Reviewing photos

Once home and after cleaning the sand off my shoes and camera gear, I import the photos onto my computer and catalogue them in lightroom, depending on how many photos I took this can take a little while especially since many of my shots are 3 Shot HDR files.

The I do a quick review of the photos, selecting those once at first review that I feel I may want to edit.

Merging HDR photos

As I mentioned i often do quite a few HDR photos and in case you're wondering what that is I did do a [blog post on my website about this]9http://www.singingwithlight.me/Blog/An-overview-on-how-I-do-my-HDR) that you can check out if interested.

I use a program called Photomatix Pro at the moment to merge the three photos and that probably take a few minutes to do for each photo (I have never actually timed it to be honest)

Then once I have completed the merge I will do some fine tuning in Lightroom and generally photoshop to get the photo looking just the way I want it, my estimate is that I would spend a minimum of 10 more minutes per photo in editing, and for some that may well be twenty or 30 minutes.

And then I am ready to share the photos, So I just would like to say snapping a photo on your phone and sharing it with no editing or minimal text many not take a lot of time, but for most photographers using SLR camera of one type or another, it is a very different story.

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if you made it this far, thank you and a quick question

I have seen various posts about how many times one should post in a day, and seen a variety of opinions, as you know I have been generally posting 3 times a day, some with more thoughts of mine such as this one others mainly focusing on a photo.

I am thinking for the next week to cut back to just two posts a day and see how that goes.

any thoughts of feedback on this would be greatly appreciated

OK sorry if this came across as a Rant and I will now return you to the regularly scheduled programming

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