I was reminded the other day, as I missed by about 2 seconds the good light on a scene, about how fleeting good light is and how quickly you have to shoot oftentimes to get it.
What do you do to speed up your setup time and exposure process to catch the super fleeting light?
A couple of things I do (in no particular order):
1) Keep a super flexible cable release permanently on each lens.
2} Mark my lens wraps with white letting so I get the lens I want first try.
3) Use a quick release tripod head.
4) Use step up rings on all lense up to the size of my largest lens (left permanenty on the lens) and lens caps to that size so all filters and caps are interchangeable.
5) Set up tripod, finding my POV by putting my chin on the tripod head rather than doing that with the camera on and repositioning it by looking through it each time.
6) Practice setting all lenses adjustments from behind the camera (I can't do this with shutters that don't have aperture click stops).
7) Meter for the shadows and let the highlights go (unless it is a super contrasty situation).
8) Practice setting up the camera (I don't need to do this any more as I have done this for a living for 30 years, but it was useful when I started).
What do you do?
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