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As a photographer, being the first person on the beach has many benefits - no foot prints on the sand, no worrying about someone stealing you equipment as it lays out in the open and, most importantly, you get to choose what and where you want to shoot.
However, the chances of you being the first person on the beach are slim. Fishermen will always have you beat since they have no set schedule of when the fish will bite. Thus the more hours they spend on the water, the higher the chances of catching fish. For the photographer, the beach is really not that exciting without some ambient light, so we follow a set schedule - an hour before the sunrises up to an hour after the sunset (unless it’s the stars we are trying to photograph).
Such was the case in this shot. I arrived early at the beach but the fishermen were already there. So the next best thing to do was add them to the composition.
This shot was taken at 1/2s, f/32 and ISO 100, with a three stop graduated neutral density filter and a polarizer mounted on the lens.
