How to Read a Seascape Scene Before You Shoot: Lessons from Bombo Quarry

How to Read a Seascape Scene Before You Shoot: Lessons from Bombo Quarry

There’s a particular kind of paralysis that hits me at dramatic coastal locations. Too many foreground options, water that won’t stay still, light that’s changing every thirty seconds. I either freeze up and shoot the “obvious” frame everyone else shoots, or I move too fast and miss the moment entirely. What I’ve needed, for a long time, is a reliable process for reading a scene before committing to a shot.