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olivermossI am just back from shooting the Neskowin Ghost Forest. Most of what can be seen of it is only visible for a few hours a year. A little of it can be seen at low tide, but much more can be seen at an extreme low tide that happens for an hour a few days a year.
I'd planned to go to this specific extreme low tide event a while ago. When I was having breakfast at the local cafe everyone was talking about some article calling this specific low tide event the best chance to see the forest for the next 5 years. I've looked at the tide tables and I am pretty sure that is not accurate, but someone wrote it somewhere and the area got way, more more people than were expected by any of the local businesses.
Fortunately, one of my lenses is a monster wide angle to telephoto zoom. I was able to snipe far away shots that were temporarily free of people. wide angles can also be good by letting you get close to a subject and avoid the people that way, but my own shadow was also a problem. I pretty much had to stick to zoom shots.
After a while I set up shots with people in them and waited for an opening. Sometimes I waited a while. I never got the shots I most wanted, but I also can't complain too much, this was a pretty cool thing to get to do at all. My galleries are here if you'd like to see.
What are your strategies for dealing with crowds, especially in your landscapes? Do you find that photogs like to cooperate with each other, or do they get competitive for the shots? Do you go home and edit the kids playing in the sand out later?
I'd planned to go to this specific extreme low tide event a while ago. When I was having breakfast at the local cafe everyone was talking about some article calling this specific low tide event the best chance to see the forest for the next 5 years. I've looked at the tide tables and I am pretty sure that is not accurate, but someone wrote it somewhere and the area got way, more more people than were expected by any of the local businesses.
Fortunately, one of my lenses is a monster wide angle to telephoto zoom. I was able to snipe far away shots that were temporarily free of people. wide angles can also be good by letting you get close to a subject and avoid the people that way, but my own shadow was also a problem. I pretty much had to stick to zoom shots.
After a while I set up shots with people in them and waited for an opening. Sometimes I waited a while. I never got the shots I most wanted, but I also can't complain too much, this was a pretty cool thing to get to do at all. My galleries are here if you'd like to see.
What are your strategies for dealing with crowds, especially in your landscapes? Do you find that photogs like to cooperate with each other, or do they get competitive for the shots? Do you go home and edit the kids playing in the sand out later?
