How I Shot That - Late Afternoon Marsh Bench
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Golden Hour...
Besides the fall, spring can give you a magnificent glow. Morning and evening will give different properties so you want to choose your times wisely. This article will discuss the ending time of light.
Usually, shooting into the Sun isn't going to be helpful to your photo. But, like you will find so often in Photography, rules are more like guidelines. And in this case you can find the exception in this: the shadows are not too much.
Some of this is because many of the latest sensors like the one in my Sony a6000 have great dynamic range. That means it can bring out the details between shaded and lit areas very well. I did need to sacrifice one thing, the sky.
But what happened to me today? How did I come up onto this place, it could almost be cropped further for different aspects to give a new outcome. This spot could be used for different types of portraits, nevermind all of the foliage and wildlife that surely must be near this.
By my nature, I'm a very distractible person. (I try to keep these posts short because of it.) But this time when I went out with my camera, I used that distraction. In fact, I had been shooting what I could of wildlife and random people. This was part of a path that forces you to turn around and head back as it becomes a dead end. But photography is almost always a matter of perspective. And walking a path in multiple directions helps me release my distractions and swim in them at the same time.
So I was heading back from the dead end, and I realized the sun had produced an extra glow due to all of the pollen in the air. This location was probably one of the richest in pollen thickness in the air... you could smell everything (if it didn't overpower your nose).
And the glow struck me that the shade never was completely dark. The glow made me wonder because a portrait would give an air of magic to the subject. The glow made it possible to break so many 'rules' you could find in photography.
If I had to come back to one thing, that is to explore... even if you can't travel, explore the same places. Probably more important when you are new than anything, because it gives you experience. It gives you ideas for the future. Explore the same thing at different times of day and of the year.
If that skill was good for Ansel Adams (autobiography, http://amzn.to/2FFC96i), I'm sure it will help me out here and there too.
