Light through the day

I thought that Southsea Promenade might offer a suitable subject for this particular exercise which required a series of pictures of one scene taken throughout the day from dawn to dusk. A reconnaisance left me with the possibility of two landscapes  ( pier  / lighthouse  )fitting the bill - i.e.  fairly definite subjects likely to catch the sun from sunrise to sunset.



P329: f5.6 @ 1/60  ISO 100  18mm      5.24am

P330: f5.6 @ 1/500  ISO 100  18mm   6.20am

P331: f5.6 @ 1/500  ISO 100 18mm    7.10am



P332: f5.6 @ f5.6 @1/800  ISO 100 18mm  8.08am

P333: f5.6 @ 1/640  ISO 100 18mm 9.40am 

P334: f5.6 @ 1/800  ISO 100 18mm  10.48am

P335: f5.6 @ 1/500  ISO 100  22mm  12.25pm

P336: F5.6 @ 1/800  ISO 100 18mm  2.11pm

P337: f5.6 @ 1/500  ISO 100  18mm  4.34pm 

P338: f5.6 @ 1/400  ISO100  18mm  6.34pm

P339: f5.6 @ 1/200  ISO 100        18mm  7.28pm

P340: f5.6 @ 1/80  ISO 100  18mm  8.07pm 

P340a : f5.6 @ 1/6  ISO 100  18mm  8.36pm

While I decided to use bracketing to see if exposures lighter or darker to the standard one would be better for the final version of certain images, all of the selected images above were taken at the standard exposure. I expected the silver roofs on the pier to present some interest as the sun moved across the landscape particularly just after sun rise ( 5.20am that day ... a few minutes before I arrived )...maybe from reflected light which was a reason for choosing the angle that I set the camera. It became very obvious that the sun had to rise much higher that sun rise for the roofs to capture the light. While the sunset threw some coloured light on the roofs ( P340 ), I decided that the image I liked best was P339 taken at 7.28pm.The strong shadow on the beach captured the feeling that the day was on the turn and the best of the sunshine had gone countered as it was by the pale yellow light at the top of towers on the pier. I didn't realise at the time that this image would be my choice as I felt sunset would offer a better bet from what I was seeing in front of me.