It’s very easy to get into a rut with your photography and blame the conditions for not taking any photographs.
Don’t let the weather, lighting, subject matter or anything else put you off taking photographs.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve gone to bed with a plan of what I am going to photograph the next day, only to wake up and the weather conditions are totally unsuitable.
There’s nothing wrong with planning what you are going to do but don’t let things you can’t change put you off shooting.
If it starts raining shoot some wet pavements, if it’s too sunny find some shade and if your model doesn’t turn up photograph the environment around you.
This happened to me only the other day. A no-show from a model after a group of us had traipsed miles carrying food, water, clothing, makeup and a load of heavy lighting equipment.
You have two options when you are in this situation. You can swear and curse and raise your blood pressure or you can shoot what you can. As it was raining (We had planned to shoot in the rain so we were well prepared) I took some photographs of the forest floor.
In the end I got an image I was really happy with and I wasn’t expecting, so the day ended well and I went home happy.
