{"id":197,"date":"2011-09-06T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-10-25T16:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:26:25","slug":"different-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/different-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

In some parts of the world, the weather is known to change quickly and\u00a0people often say: If you don’t like the weather … wait a few minutes.\u00a0 With regard to outdoor photography, the same thing can often be said about the quality of the light:\u00a0 if you don’t like the light … wait a few minutes.<\/p>\n

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Case in point, the attached photos of Purple Fringe.\u00a0 The first shot was captured in open sun\u00a0near mid day.\u00a0 Bright light like this causes not just shadows, but hard-edged shadows (transition from light to shadow is crisp rather than soft).\u00a0 This is sometimes refered to as hard light.<\/p>\n

For the second image, I simply waited for clouds to obscure the sun, resulting in soft light.\u00a0 This eliminates the harsh shadows, but the image looses overal contrast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that light can change quickly and can greatly impact the mood of an image.\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 The second image here was captured 3 minutes after the first image.<\/p>\n

Typically, I prefer soft light or side light.\u00a0 I prefer the second image.\u00a0 (Many outdoor photographers will tell you that mid-day hard light is “bad light”.)<\/p>\n

However, both images suffer from cluttered background of grasses.\u00a0 Perhaps I was so enamored with this amazing flower that I did not pay attention to the background.\u00a0 I don’t recall.\u00a0 A lower camera angle might have helped eliminate the grasses from the photo, but likely not enough.\u00a0Perhaps the only recourse here is to walk away from this plant and find a different Purble Fringe with less grass nearby.<\/p>\n

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