Sunday, May 18, 2014

Time of day can have a huge impact on your photo

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 800, ƒ/22, 20sec [10:08 pm]
Plan your travel as best you can to make the most of a given location, especially if you want a great photograph that WOWs.

The first photo here is taken at dusk. The lights of the city are on and it give the photo a lot more pop than this photo taken late in the day.

Fuji X-E2, 18-55mm, ISO 500, ƒ/13, 1/500 [7:51 pm]
This morning I woke up and took the same location early in the morning.

Fuji X-E2, 18-55mm, ISO 2000, ƒ/18, 1/500 [8:49 am]
As you can see the same location looks quite different at different times of day.

As a storyteller, which photo best helps you tell the story when you first think of Lisbon, Portugal. By the end of this week of teaching storytelling in Lisbon I might pick a different photo than when I started, but now I have options.

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 800, ƒ/20, 5sec [10:11 pm]
Here is another perspective from the same place I was shooting the other photos. Here it is at dusk and here it is just an hour earlier.

Fuji X-E2, 18-55mm, ISO 2000, ƒ/13, 1/500 [8:59 pm]
I liked the location so much I made a panoramic of the spot.  Click on it to see it larger.

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 800, ƒ/22, 1.6sec [10:07 pm]