Hail

Today it hailed. Twice actually. Big icy balls of frozen water coming down and bouncing off my black driveway. It was beautiful. As I lay flat on the cold concrete outside my house, I knew what my shot was going to look like. I was going to set my aperture to about 14 and my shutter speed to about 1/25. I had my camera flat on the ground, cause that was the composition I knew would look amazing. I was going to have blurred action of the hail bouncing off my black drive. What did you say? Where is this amazing picture? Heck if I know, I couldn't get my settings right. It was all blown out and looked like I did a macro of a solar flare. (not the look i was going for). By the time I messed with my settings and was  tttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss close to getting it, the hail stopped. I was not happy and...I was dirty from laying on the ground. So, what I want to know is....how do you know what settings to begin with on a shot like like??  Anyone, Bueller, anyone.

So, I will leave you with these pictures of flowers by husband brought home for me this evening. Today was a bit of a heart breaking and disappointing kind of day for me and he was very kind and understanding. It felt lovely.