Don’t give up the ship!
Since photography has developed so fast to a computerized medium, I have no digital technical knowledge to share with anyone . . . but, I could recall situations that may be helpful to a budding photographer.
As a young man, I lived in a ship building town, and I was very busy photographing new ship’s interiors and exteriors.
One particular ship had a gigantic cargo area below deck, which I had to photograph. I set up my tripod and the heavy camera (8×10 format) with wide angle lens. Since there was very little light, I figured a time exposure of about four minutes should do it. Just when I started the exposure, all hell broke loose!
With a big BANG the deck started to shake violently, and the tripod with the camera started to move around like some sort of ritual dance. Realizing that somebody had started the huge engines, I ran up three decks to the bridge and yelled ”Stop the engines!” Now, they were testing the engines and in no mood to comply, but after some arguments, they gave in and provided me half an hour of calm, so I could finish my job.
Lesson: Let people know what your plans are!