Light Through the Day

I spent the entire day today just going into the garden every hour to take photos of the light and how it fell creating different shadows and changed in colour over the time period. My aim was to look at how and when the light changed in colour and intensity an in turn what this meant to the over all feel of the images. Here is the day in photos below:

9am

1/50 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

10am

1/200 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

As with the judging colour temperature exercise, you can see that first two images taken early morning have a cooler blue look to them due to the time of day. 

11am

1/200 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

12pm

1/160 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

1pm

1/160 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

2pm

1/200 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

Between the hours of 11 and 2, the light stays at a very neutral colour, the tones of shadows and highlights stays roughly the same throughout and even the shutter settings used don’t have to be altered much during this period as lighting conditions stay constant.

3pm

1/160 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

4pm

1/160 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

4.30pm

1/125 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

You can see that more golden tones are seeping in as the light gets lower to the horizon. The depth of the shadows has changed and are a little lighter.

5pm

1/80 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

5.15pm

1/50 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

5.30pm

1/50 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

Now the sky has begun to turn to a more violet shade as the sun gets even lower, and the over all tone of the image is becoming darker in the shady foreground. Also the shutter speed as been reduced dramatically over the past half an hour as opposed to how often it changed during the middle of the day.

5.45pm

1/25 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

6pm

1/2 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

6pm

1/20 sec

f/8

ISO 200

 

In the last few photos the light becomes a much more intense blue/violet over the whole frame very quickly. Light changes very rapidly in its last few moments so there is scope to get so very interesting colourful shots. The second 6pm shot was actually what my cameras light meter suggested would be the correct reading for the scene, but I think it was recording the colour of the sky more than the foreground which has produced the very inky blue colour all over. This obviously shows I should take more readings before shooting to get it as accurate as possible!