I’m sure my methods would be (or are) sometimes frowned upon by some of the ‘pros’ out there. I ask “what if” a lot.
You know what? I don’t care. It’s why I am who I am and how I produce some of the images I do. I talked about this in a presentation I gave recently to a local camera club.
Puddle under the El in Chicago ©Lauri Novak
Because I don’t allow myself to get all caught up in the ‘right’ way or the ‘best’ way to create an image. I’m much more of a “what happens if I …” type of person. Experimenting and playing with angles, where I place my camera and just see what happens.
Honestly, for images like this one, I am likely to have my camera on Auto mode. Sometimes, I turn on the live view (when I remember). My camera is 10 years old, I do not have an articulating screen to see everything I’m doing. I’m OK with that.