We're going to do this a little differently - we don't have 12mths to spend on this exercise!! LOL. Lets do it over the course of a day or two. You will need an outside subject for this one. (inside won't work as well as the lighting is more controlled)

You may want to pick a day or two, when you don't have a lot going on so that you can be around to take a picture of the same subject every couple of hours.

When you get up, take a shot of your subject, then 1 or 2 hours later, take another, and repeat at the same time intervals over the course of the day, with the last shot being once the sun has set.

Keep the same aperture setting for all of the pictures so you'll see the exact same image each time, just with different lighting.

And repeat the following day or when there is a clear difference in the weather. Remembering to keep the same aperture setting.

If the weather is the same (ie, snow, snow & snow or sun, sun, sun ) over the course of 1 week - then just post images from 1 day. If you manage to get 2 days with different weather conditions - then post them all. Light on an overcast day is different from light on a sunny day.

HOMEWORK

Please post 3 examples of “what your camera sees”.

Please feel free to ask questions. You are encouraged to comment on each other's images!

SS 1/640 F5.6 ISO 200 Taken at 10.14am


SS 1/500 F5.6 ISO 200 Taken at 12.12pm


SS 1/500 F5.6 ISO 200 Taken at 1.58pm

Bridget, this was a toughie!! I sort of see what's happening as in my shutter speed has gone down, but think this needs practicing quite a bit.

Good try Sam, if you manage to try again try taking maybe 3 shots in early morning then lunchtime and early evening all from the same angle to see the differences the light has.

I didn't had a chance to do this week's homework so thought I'd post some images that I've taken previously under different lighting conditions ... I hope that's ok.



I will certainly do the exercise when I'm at home for a day one weekend ...



I think this scene was side lit. It's of a fisherman's den on Lindisfarne taken during the mid-afternoon of a cloudy day in April, soft lighting with shadows cast from the overhanging roof of the den and the shadows from the den on the grass.





ISO 400 f/22 1/250



Backlit sunset over the grand union canal taken as the sun was setting last month. Strong colours in the sky and silhouettes of the trees and grasses on the bank reflected in the water.





ISO 100 f/14 1/160



Evening lit scene taken in mid-April. Nice warm light!



ISO 400 f/22 1/160

Three good examples of how lighting affects your photographs Sam. As you noticed the evening light does give particularly nice warm lighting