Sunrise, Mid-Morning, Sunset, And Weather Fallbacks

Use light and behavior to override the day-by-day plan when the field tells you to move.

Window	Decision
Sunrise	Arrive with a roost chosen, protect highlights, and decide whether the image is still water, silhouettes, or explosive lift-off.
Mid-morning	Use the vehicle as a blind in fields, work decks carefully, and make reeds, crop rows, glare, and smaller subjects part of the photograph.
Sunset	Read wind before color. Choose position by landing direction, then switch from tight action to wider closing scenes when the action slows.
Weather fallback	Make mist, pale water, reeds, gray light, and panning experiments the assignment instead of treating weak color as failure.

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