I hate shooting outdoors.

For the first production post I'll be talking about location in general. To be honest our location scouting was really vage. At the beginning we were really focused on it, mostly because we didn't had a script and the easiest way to portray western would be through location. Shooting in the ranches or somenthing, so we where looking for places and calling them. But once I wrote the script location was no longer a problem. As the character was in a really lonely place. We just thought of a place for long shots (it really worked) and as I've been there once as a group we never went together to pick a specific place to shoot in Vista View Park the place of our choice. We wen't confidently as I already had made a shortfilm there, but It would have been better to actually plan it better. I had to walk with a sack of dirt which was a lil heavy. 

Also we had to change shooting time almost the day before as vista park wasn't openned at that early in the morning. This wasn't actually that big of a deal, I would say it was actually a good thing. As we wanted to go for really wide shots, with a high F-stop and shooting early in the morning the shots would have been really dark. Using direct sunlight can be relly hard as you can't control it, and without a good camera the shots can be really really bad. 

Weather was hot and there was a lot of sun. Which usually makes shooting outside really hard but we had ND filters. ND stands for Neutral Density, refering to the blocking of light in a way that the colour of the light isn't changed. The ND filters where the key to exploit the place we where shooting. ANd open field with a lot of light. Resulting in some amazing shots. 

The first day of shooting showed us how planning is extremely important. As the different locations where one shots, have different conditions that may affect the process. 

“ND Filters – in Depth Guide for Beginners.” The School of Photography - Courses, Tutorials & Books, www.theschoolofphotography.com/tutorials/nd-filters-in-depth-guide-for-beginners.