{"id":1080,"date":"2017-07-30T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2017-07-30T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T16:58:42","slug":"photography-knowing-where-to-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/photography-knowing-where-to-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography &#8211; Knowing Where To Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1082\" style=\"width: 1031px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TALL-9364b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TALL-9364b.jpg\" alt=\"Schooner on the Delaware River, Phliadelphia PA\" width=\"1031\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TALL-9364b.jpg 1031w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TALL-9364b-340x242.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TALL-9364b-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TALL-9364b-1024x728.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schooner on the Delaware River, Phliadelphia PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this particular case,\u00a0standing on a tall bridge\u00a0(with pedestrian walkway) provided a\u00a0spectacular view.<\/p>\n<p>Where to stand?\u00a0 I do ponder this question in advance whenever possible.\u00a0But sometimes\u00a0I don&#8217;t have detailed information in advance.\u00a0\u00a0 If I recall correctly, on the day of this parade of sail,\u00a0I did not know precisely where the ships would be sailing and realized the potential of the bridge\u00a0only\u00a0that morning when I arrived at the waterfront.<\/p>\n<p>The question of where to stand sometimes involves the location of the sun.\u00a0 In the morning, sunlight will be coming from the east or southeast.\u00a0 Later in the day, it comes from west or southwest.\u00a0 That can be extremely important if my photographic expectations are front-light, back-light, or side-light.<\/p>\n<p>A staged event, such as\u00a0a parade of sail, will generally have a fixed start time that is outside of my control.\u00a0 In that case, perhaps the biggest question is whether to stand on the left bank or the right bank.\u00a0 For a recent Sail Boston event, I knew that the ships would be\u00a0sailing into\u00a0Boston Harbor through a channel between East Boston and South Boston; I had to choose one location, as travelling between the different locations was impractical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this particular case,\u00a0standing on a tall bridge\u00a0(with pedestrian walkway) provided a\u00a0spectacular view. Where to stand?\u00a0 I do ponder this question in advance whenever possible.\u00a0But sometimes\u00a0I don&#8217;t have detailed information in advance.\u00a0\u00a0 If I recall correctly, on the day of this parade of sail,\u00a0I did not know precisely where the ships would be sailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,20,22],"tags":[64,134],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newengland","category-photo","category-technique","tag-photography","tag-tall-ship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}