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02/25/2013 12:38:34 AM · #51 |
| Yeah, Ephemeris is rad. I use it for determining locations for some shots in the middle of nowhere. If you can do raking light in one direction, you can do raking backlight just by switching your direction into the light source. But yeah, you are definitely limited as to when you can shoot them, particularly there. |
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02/25/2013 09:48:41 AM · #52 |
Originally posted by PennyClick:
The photographer's ephemeris is a great program to find out, for any location, what the direction of the sun and also it's elevation will be at any point in time. I'll see if I can find the link for you. It does the same for the moon too.
ETA: Here is the link: The photographer's ephemeris. I don't know where you are in Florida but I just looked at the details in the vicinity of Miami and found the following. The highest elevation the sun reached today was 54.9 degrees above the horizon, at 12:40pm, and at 8:30am, about 2 hours after sunrise, the sun's elevation was still only 20.9 degrees above the horizon. |
Thanks Penny, Illcheck it out, never even knew this existed. I also found the Iphone app. Ill start studying it. Thanks everyone. Any other assignments you want me to do Bear or Derek ? |
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02/25/2013 11:39:40 AM · #53 |
Originally posted by CaptUnderpants:
[Any other assignments you want me to do Bear or Derek ? |
From my original post:
Originally posted by bear_music:
And so forth, and so on. Your assignment; get out that brick and lamp and make some shots illustrating these principles. Then get out in the field and disregard subjects altogether; wherever you SEE nice light fully expressing some particular space or object, snap a shot of it. Post your results here :-) |
So get out and PRACTICE with light for a bit, make this your single goal. Don't worry about "subject" or even "composition" overmuch, just get in the habit of SEEING the light, not the subject/composition. And when you see a nice bit of light you want to record, walk around it, crouch down, stand up, study it from different angles, document it.
Let me make this clear: we're less interested, right now, in going out to "find an interesting rock to photograph" or "find a nice view to photograph". No, what we're looking for is nice light, and when we find it we want to record it, no matter how banal the erstwhile "subject" may be. Peeling paint? Nice light! Oil on your driveway? Check out that LIGHT, dude! Get in the habit of seeing how the light interacts with the world, instead of seeing the world "as objects", and you are becoming a different class of photographer.
So that's your assignment for a bit, and anyone else's who cares to join in: get out in the world and chase down the light!
Message edited by author 2013-02-25 11:40:40. |
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