Cleaning the Catch

The amateur photographer, when traveling, can't always shoot subjects in the ideal light of

sunrise or sunset. Your critiques are most welcome as I learn how to do my best with

conditions that prevail when on the move.

Don't try to find an excuses. You can catch a good shoot at any time of the day, if you find a right subject. The early morning and the late afternoon light is rightly the best lighting situation most of the time, but adhere time is OK too, if you have a clear atmosphere, like in this picture. The sunrise and sunset images are naturally attractive for most of the people, a dazzling colours, . . . and as a "deluge", all over in every photo site.

This image is a good image and telling a story, and very well done.

 

Best regards; Bela

No excuses, you're right. In addition to morning and evening light, I've found the closet! I'm busy with a project that requires complete darkness. So come back - might be something good.

Yeah. All of the above.

 

I, too, struggle with making the best of a variety of lighting situations when I'm doing a road trip or a day of driving around and shooting. I was reading an article about landscape photography recently and it said, simply, don't even CONSIDER taking a landscape image at any time other than the one magic hour in the morning or the one magic hour in the evening. Makes me sad.... I don't have the time or resources to go on a trip and ONLY shoot landscapes at sunrise and sunset (and then do WHAT the rest of the day???)

 

Okay - enough. :-) My answer: try your best to keep the mid-day sun behind you, or at least out of the frame. You seem to have done this well enough without my help. You captured a great sky, the shadows are not destructive to the shot, the colors are great, and it's a great study in the context of this man's activity.

Thanks for your analysis. It's very well put and I appreciate the time you took.

 

When I shot this, we had just bought the Nikon and I didn't have a clue - about composition, lighting, DOF. It looked like a decent shot and I took it. I didn't have post processing tools other than PhotoShop and I only used that for overall sharpening on occasion.

 

So what does this tell me? That there are rules to follow and rules to break IF you have a good eye and go with your heart. So sunrise and sunset - phooey - shoot em when you see em. Fix em if you have to. And if you don't get it right, go out and try again.

 

Cheers ~