What do you do in un ideal weather?

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Looking to see what you all do when the weather is not so ideal, or rather what you capture.
Seems lately in the daytime the sky has been blown out, vast miles of whitness with no interest. Or raining with no hope of it stopping yet I itch to get out and use my new lens.

Do you look for something else to shoot, or not bother? The weather has been uninspiring here lately, horrible lighting and makes any image look boring or unattractive and have seen my self resort to night time photography to get any interest.
 
Night photography is always an interesting chellenge, and a fun one rather than something I'd think of as a last resort. Indoor tabletop photography. Planning/researching my next locations.

But bad weather doesn't always make for bad shots, it just challenges your skills more than those blue skies with fluffy cloud days. Time to think of less conventional subjects that might benefit from even, overcast lighting.
 
Still life is an easy one; typically, this kind of dull weather means really diffused light coming through the window so if you are without flash (or just need some additional fill), daylight is a very useful tool for shooting stuff in the house.

Portraiture, if you have a willing model.

TBH I don't fret about the weather and I actually prefer shooting in dull conditions most of the time because I think there's something a bit more edgey about overcast skies and diffused light.
 
I stay in bed!

If the weather is really foul - blowing a near gale and pouring with rain, I may head for the beach or the moor to see if there are any shots.
 
Watch a film, we have a lens that's taken a whole 3 test shots of the fridge so far. Waiting for a nice(r) day to get out with it.
 
Sometimes you may have no choice except to take the shot under overcast, wet, gloomy, cold, etc days. So it makes sense to practice under those conditions whilst you've got a choice about where and when.
 
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