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The Mangorei Mist image from Burgess Hill, just outside New Plymouth, was on my capture list for many years.
On this occasion I was intending to capture scenes from South Taranaki.
Unfortunately / fortunately I was running late.
It was usually the case, that I would stop, all too often on my way south, that I wouldn’t get there
whilst the light was good. The morning of this scene was no different. I didn’t want to stop, but as the
sun was just warming the very top of Mount Taranaki, what I saw got the better of me. I couldn’t let this chance pass me by.
The mist was heavier and there were cows or beefies on the far side of the paddock. By the time I had set up,
the animals were on the other side of the fence wondering what I was doing, with the all important mist fading fast.
The light was also changing on me.
( For the techno heads, this was a multi image stitch to increase pixel density, of six to eight single captures. )
The digital artwork that I did on the image was to clean objects in the capture, that
I would have otherwise left out, if I was to paint the exact same scene onto a canvas.
A painter starts with a blank canvas and chooses what to add to it, a photographer starts
with a overly full canvas and has to decide what to show and what to leave out.
If I could paint, this is probably what I would have ended up with.
Unfortunately / fortunately – I can’t.
