On January 6th, I stayed up late and drove to Cocoa Beach for the Space Coast's first rocket launch of the new decade! I planned to use the Cocoa Beach Pier as nice foreground for the shot, so I parked just south of the pier and walked along the beach to the north as I was adjusting to find the best viewing location. I was set up and ready to go with the shot framed about 10 min ahead of time while I was glued to the phone watching details of the launch from Space Flight Now's live feed. Unfortunately though, when the engines started to light and I turned on the shutter, I quickly noticed that I had missed the shot! As sometimes happens with rocket launches, the exact rocket angle trajectory is not always known to the general public ahead of time. The glow coming from the rocket was very much outside the frame. I quickly re-positioned the tripod in a split second and barely looked at the screen before backing up and turning the shutter on. Since I didn't get a good look at the screen I spent the next 260 seconds pretty much convinced I missed the shot. But it actually turned out better than I could have imagined.
0 Comments
|
Categories
All
Archives
January 2022
|