Variety with a low sun

For this exercise I returned to Southsea seafront at the end of the day about two hours before sunset for three of the images and for one ( P341 ) I chose a  shot taken 40 minutes after sunrise. The idea here was to explore the advantages of shooting when the sun is low. Interestingly or perhaps not surprisingly, I found edge lighting the hardest lighting to find and think I may have to have a few goes at this and with a wider range of subjectss before really capturing the benefit of this kind of lighting.

Frontal lighting  



P341: f5.6 @ 1/640  ISO 100 -0.7exp. 27mm cropped

Taken at 6.00am, 40 minutes after dawn. Very difficult to avoid appearing in this image as a shadow ...with hindsight I should have used a telescopic lens.

Side lighting

P342: f5.6 @ 1/500  ISO 100 -0.7exp. 21mm

Taken at 7.15pm, a slightly more interesting image with the inclusion of a cyclist. Taking photographs during the day when the promenade was crowded with people was a little tricky as I came across some expressed wariness earlier in the day despite having got  agreement prior to taking some images. I opted for a darker exposure to reduce the danger of an overexposed shot. Interestingly, the yellow is lighter than in the image taken just over 12 hours earlier where the yellow appears more rich in colour, almost moving into

orange. 

Back lighting

P343: f5.6 @ 1/250  ISO 100  0 exp. 24mm cropped





This was taken at 7.16pm, about two hours before sunset. Given the height of the sun (lower than expected ) and the subsequent impact on the scene i.e. shadows darkening the area, I used bracketing to help arrive at an appropriate exposure. Looking at the resulting images taken at 0, -0.7 and +0.7 , I decided that this image best reflected what I was actually seeing.

Edge lighting

P344: f5.6 @ 1/100  ISO100  0exp. 18mm



Try as I might I could not find edge lighting using the yellow promenade shelters  that I had been working with earlier. However,coming across a differently positioned shelter, I did manage to capture a lighting effect at around 7.43pm where the vertical columns are lit by the sun.