How ‘Crummy Weather Photography’ Inspired My Day

A few simple words of advice can make all the difference to a photographer. I had been sitting in front of the computer trying to prepare a lesson for my beginner’s photography class for over an hour with little success. I wanted to give my students something useful they could take home at the end of the evening and put into practice. But nothing was happening. The plan to go into the Wicklow mountains had been abandoned due to the rain, so there was no chance of preparing a session on photographing the local landscape as promised.

Quite by chance, while browsing incoming Tweets in my Twitter stream, I came across an enthusiastic call to visit Cass Comerford’s Crummy Weather Photography. Here, in a handful of pictures, she revealed the secret behind how she captured a beautiful image of her newborn daughter on a truly bad weather day. The bright, high-key clarity in this image was enough to remind me that it’s not necessarily the quality of the weather that makes a picture, it’s the quality of the photographer’s thought and how they use whatever is at hand to ‘paint’ with light.

(Image: Cass Comerford)

For the full story behind Cass’s photo shoot, take a look at her post on beyondmegapixels.com.

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