Perfectly Timed Or Lucky Photos?

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Just love this photo. Not famous or anything like the top one but it was JUST the right moment

Timing is everything! I was shooting the sunset when I turned and spotted this couple. I only had time for this one shot, because when I re-composed for another, they had already separated:

A bit of both -

This one I was sitting in my car and a seagull landed right on the hood. I happened to have a 300mm lens on my camera at that moment.

Many years ago I visited my sister and her husband in S. California. They lived about 2 miles from the beach. I took a shot from under a pier with a film camera and "as luck would have it", a surfer just happened to be riding under the pier when I snapped the shutter...

This shot was my lucky day during the perfect timing :



One day while exploring a beach of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, a very pretty topless village girl suddenly jumped in front of my camera and surprised me with her big sweet smile...

I have several interesting captures of squirrels. It's fun to put text balloons on them...

I'll add a short rant of mine: Most "perfect timing" photos aren't so much about timing as they are a matter of being aware of elements in the foreground and background, and composing your shot in a way that simulates interaction between them. The flag with jets is one example. Yes there is some timing involved, but it's not microseconds, it's well within the reflexes of any photographer. Awareness and thinking ahead is the key.
A classic example is Galen Rowell's famous photo of a rainbow over the Tibetan monastery that was once the residence of the Dalai Lama. He was sitting and eating dinner when he saw the rainbow, and took off running to get the rainbow and the monastery aligned in his photograph.

In other words, it is mostly skill, not luck to consistently get a reasonable number of photos of this kind. It's just another form of the pre-visualization of images that a photographer should always do in his photography. Composing the subject.

Also, many web pages featuring "perfectly timed" photos include a number of digitally edited fakes, and seem to be "clickbait", not even giving credit to photographers for photos that are probably not in the public domain.



A photo like this requires a little luck, but is also the result of hundreds of hours of shooting, and thousands of shots. The pose is random, but if you get enough shots, there will be some interesting poses in there somewhere.

Shear luck. Depending on your sense of humor, good or bad...

I don't think it's luck either, I think it's more of creating the opportunity for these events to naturally occur.

The robin was after my lunch, otherwise I would not have got the shot.

It's not unusual for me to compose an image in the viewfinder,....and then wait and wait patiently....... for gulls, ducks or cormorants or other birds to fly into or thru the composition.

Iv'e waited for as long as up to almost two hours for such juxtapositions to occur,..have been gifted with many positive results,...here are several.

I got this rare mushroom cloud over Letchworth. I went there to do some astrophotography and had no plans to shoot much else seeing as I already have a tone of Letchworth shots. But when I saw this I had to take it. I see all over FB people taking about seeing it, but I haven't seen any more shots of it over this spot. It has been pretty popular and is my fastest seller.

Being in the right place at the right time - and anticipating the moment when magic can happen.

This one was Heaven sent. I was working on my uncle's farm in the spring and drove out at the end of the working day to where this mare had had her colt the same day. It was about 9:00 pm, the sun was just setting so the lighting was perfect, the mare cooperated by not running away and I was lucky enough to catch this pose. Even the curve of the mare's tail adds to the composition by bringing the viewer's eye back to the mare and her colt.

When shooting wildlife you Always have to be ready. 3 seconds can make a difference.

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