Ben Stadelmaier rigging up at Chapoquoit beach, May 7, 2019
Went to Chapoquoit today with high expectations, but the wind wasn't as good as we all thought it would be. A few of the kiteboarders went out anyway.
I was experimenting with doing some portraits of the kiteboarders using a flash to offset the hard backlighting from the sun. I wasn't sure how to adjust the flash and wound up overdoing it. I tried to compensate in photoshop, but the images still look a bit unnatural.
This is Ben Stadelmaier getting ready to go out. Ben was in good spirits and waxing philosophically about what a wonderful day it was and how we will only experience it now, in the present moment, and then it will be gone. I answered pragmatically: "That's why I brought a camera."
Monte